“I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing.”

—  James A. Garfield

1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
Context: I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

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