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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature.
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“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”
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“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
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“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
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“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
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“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
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“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
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“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
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“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
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“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
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“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
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“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
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“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
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“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
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“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”
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“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
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“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
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“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
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“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”
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“We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.”
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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
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“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
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“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.”
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
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“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
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“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
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“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
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“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
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“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
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“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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