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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

— William Wordsworth

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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

— John Quinton

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