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Mathematicians are like helpless children beyond the pale of their own science. They cannot walk steadily out of their own go-cart.

David Lester Richardson

Thoughts unexpressed, imprisoned in a solitary brain, are short-lived, and limited in their utility. Thoughts unembodied in words are ghost-like and impalpable, and haunt but one human brain. Thoughts of dumb men are smothered in their dark and silent cradles.

David Lester Richardson

Mathematicians have too often neither common sense nor rare sense.

David Lester Richardson

It is an exquisite encouragement to the toiling heart of genius to remember that books are immortal!

David Lester Richardson

Nothing is easier than to collect the opinions of celebrated men for or against any branch of human learning.

David Lester Richardson

David Lester Richardson

David Lester Richardson

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Born: 1801

Died: 1865 (aged 64)

Bio: David Lester Richardson was an officer of the East India Company, who throughout his life followed literary pursuits as a poet and periodical writer, and as editor and proprietor of literary journals.

Known for:

Flowers and Flower-Gardens (1855)
Sonnets, and Other Poems (1825)
Literary Leaves (1840)

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