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Every Truth Has Four Corners: As A Teacher I Give You One Corner, And It Is For You To Find The Other Three.

Study As Though You Cannot Catch Up To It, And As Though You Fear You Are Going To Lose It.

The Young Should Be Dutiful At Home, Modest Abroad, Careful And True, Overflowing In Kindness For All, But In Brotherhood With Love. And If They Have Strength To Spare They Should Spend It On The Arts.

If Language Is Not Correct, Then What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant; If What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant, Then What Must Be Done Remains Undone; If This Remains Undone, Morals And Art Will Deteriorate; If Justice Goes Astray, The People Will Stand About In Helpless Confusion. Hence There Must Be No Arbitrariness In What Is Said. This Matters Above Everything.

Learn, As If Never Overtaking Your Object, And Yet As If Apprehensive Of Losing It.