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— Sidney Lanier"If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants."
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
— George Bernard Shaw
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