Quote #94

Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.

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  1. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
  2. You're trying to refute me by quoting things I've said or written myself. That's confronting me with documents that have already been seale…
  3. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
  4. A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so…
  5. The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
  6. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
  7. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word …
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