What you don't know would make a great book.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

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Live always in the best company when you read.

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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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