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"For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amont of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, that aren't becoming of you. You'll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly."

"Something else an academic education will do for you. If you to along with it any considerable distance, it'll being to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing.

"You'll learn from them - if you want to. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to.

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