"Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service."

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What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.

— Anna Brackett