“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
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“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
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