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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Including Essays
Tags: knowledge, education-system, education, 1844

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
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