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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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Born:
March 9, 1763
Died:
June 18, 1835
(aged 72)
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