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" Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. "
Adversity
Price
Worth
" Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. "
Reading
Wisdom
Before
" I am alone here in New York, no longer a we. "
New
Am
Here
" Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. "
Age
Ridiculous
Nature
" The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. "
Moment
Belief
You
" The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. "
Reading
Experience
Knowledge
" The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. "
Language
Power
Generation
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