Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
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