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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

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I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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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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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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