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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
"It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
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