It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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