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What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

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Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

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The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

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