Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. -James Russell Lowell

 

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.


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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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