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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__ notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person__ thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms_ And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.
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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__ notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person__ thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms_ And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

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