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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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• Solitude makes a wonderful mistress but a terrible wife. -- Emerso
• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
• The virtues of society are the vices of the saint. -- Emerso
• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. -- Goethe
• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ea
  he profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reade...