The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
To teach isto learn twice.
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment
Every advantage has its tax
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.