In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

Compassion

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

Teamwork

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

Learning

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

Learning