It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible, and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

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    He who would travel happily must travel light.

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    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.

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