The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done whether you like it or not.

Author: Aldous Huxley

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one - it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.