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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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