TuesdayJul 21, 2026
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Ask with urgency and passion.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.
The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.
I never forgive, but I always forget.
History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
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