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[finishing Schools] Are Nicely Adapted Machines For Experimenting On The Question, "into How Little Space A Human Being Can Be Crushed?" I Have Seen Some Souls So Compressed That They Would Have Fitted Into A Small Thimble, And Found Room To Move . . .

A Word May Become So Defiled By Bad Use That It Will Take A Century Before It Can Be Purifed, And Brought Into Use Again.

The Surest Sign Of Fitness Is Success.

For Those Of Us Who Have A Ground Of Knowledge Which We Cannot Transmit To Outsiders, It Is Perhaps More Profitable To Act Fearlessly Than To Argue.

It Is The Swimmer Who First Leaps Into The Frozen Stream Who Is Cut Sharpest By The Ice; Those Who Follow Him Find It Broken, And The Last Find It Gone. It Is The Men Or Women Who First Tread Down The Path Which The Bulk Of Humanity Will Ultimately Follow, Who Must Find Themselves At Last In Solitudes Where The Silence Is Deadly.