“Experience, that excellent master.”
Usus, magister egregius.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 20, 12.
Letters, Book I
“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.”
The Soul-Winner (1895)
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