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11. 'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
13. This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or…
10. A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
14. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
9. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
15. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
8. Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an a…
16. The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

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