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least protects you from many illusions. But you go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the art of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage, and for mental soberness.
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wrote in 1972, "In the century that has passed since then, no further light, incredible as it may seem, has been shed upon the subject ... It may finally be remarked that in every reference yet made to this curious episode there seems never to have been a mention of the word 'homosexuality'."
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