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The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had read more
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master
the old rule, you are read more
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master
the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.
People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.
