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“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
Mark Twain
“Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new”
“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook”
“Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.”
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live”
“A beautiful woman is a practical poet.”
“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.”
