SundayFeb 22, 2026
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.
J.J. Sylvester
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
Oliver Goldsmith
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
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