Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle
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- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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- Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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