It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. - Hosea Ballou - Quotesmemo.com

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Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book. . . . All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

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Hosea Ballou

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

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