Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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