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 To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.  Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. The true university of these days is a collection of books. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. It's a simple formula; do your best and somebody might like it. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it. The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. No question is ever settled until it is settled right. Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on the number, but the choice of friends. Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. I am not a Virginian but an American. 
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