I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

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When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. "The finest collection of frames I ever saw," he said.

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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

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