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Edward Gibbon: 'Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.'

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Edward Gibbon: 'I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.'

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Edward Gibbon: 'The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.'

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Edward Carpenter: 'My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.'

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Hannah More: 'Goals help you overcome short-term problems.'

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Hannah More: 'Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.'

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Hannah More: 'Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.'

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Hannah More: 'The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.'

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Hannah More: 'Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.'

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Hannah More: 'Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.'

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Hannah More: 'Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.'

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