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— Ulysses S. Grant"A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect."
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Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.
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