True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist but what they mean, it is not memory but judgment.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done w

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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