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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are be humbly what you aspire to be.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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