"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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"In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.“
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"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."
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"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own."
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"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."
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"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
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