Bookend quotes:

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. ~Japanese proverb (D. Morgan)
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches, but to reveal his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli (S. Reid)

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Bookend quotes:
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~Edgar Allan Poe (S. Reid)
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ~Alfred Austin (J. Jareau)

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