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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

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A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

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They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

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Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

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