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“How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”

Men Helping Heaven Friendship United Impossible Failing Thousand Ten Capable Infinite League Sufficient Mutual Yield Hollow Neutrality Man United

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.”

Should Mean Persons Support Failing Letters Sufficient Spells Astonishing Right Place Publication

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

Way Littles Reading Found Loses Rooms Failing Subjects Reader Corners My Way Sufficient License Carelessness Inattention

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.”

Two Failing Source Advantage Errors Data Sufficient

Author:Bryan Caplan

“Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.”

Persons Individual Failing Solitude Sufficient Rebel Inner Life

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island