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“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.”
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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