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“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
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“It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.”
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“Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.”
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“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
[G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.]”
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[G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.]”
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“We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.”
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“In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious”
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