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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
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