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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.


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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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