Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. – Henry Ward Beecher
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