Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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