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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. ↗

— William Gilbert

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. ↗

— William Godwin

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To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. ↗

— William Godwin

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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