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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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