Quote #21

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: The first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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  1. I was never less alone than when by myself. 6
  2. From my childhood, I had been fond of religious disputation.
  3. On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation witho…
  4. Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?
  5. It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vesp…
  6. The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
  7. Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
  8. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

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