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  1. A quotation from Thoreau

    How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)

    More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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  2. A quotation from Cicero

    No philosopher ever yet — and there has been a great deal written upon the subject — defined a mere change of plan as vacillation.
     
    [Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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