What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
- Henry David Thoreau