A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.
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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
I am always for the man who wishes to work.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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