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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.

Thomas Carlyle

There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness

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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