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"It is a mistake... to think that, to do one thing well, we must just do and think about that and nothing else all the time. It is our business to know all we can...That is one way we become better persons, and the more a person is, the better he will do whatever piece of special work falls to his share.
Let us have, like Leonardo, a spirit 'invariably royal and magnanimous.'"

"The mistake is to keep always on the same beaten track. It may be the mechanical round of lessons, without a thought of what it is all about. It may be housekeeping, business, hunting, shooting, dress---things well enough in their way; but to confine Intellect to them is like harnessing a race-horse to a coster's barrow. We may not stay in one Field of Thought."