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“... every victory is also a defeat. Nobody gets anything for nothing.”
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“Power's twin is responsibility ...”
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“There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.”
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“What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?”
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“[At age 14:] There were elderly gentlemen, who Daniel said were professors. They appeared to be suffering from the effects of too much learning; they were a different kind of people from any I had seen before.”
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“... a mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
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“... there is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
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“... nobody ever intends to be old.”