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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.