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— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.
— William Shakespeare
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Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
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