Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

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Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified...

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.