Random Reads: Dr. Mutter's Marvels

"Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency-nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it. This world is no place of rest....Our work should never be done, and it is the daydream of ignorance to look forward to that as a happy time, when we shall wish for nothing more, and have nothing more to accomplish." -Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter

 

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