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“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ”
“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
“The opacity of the mind, its inability to project itself into the realm of another's personality, goes a long way to explain the friction of life. If we would set down other people's errors to this...”
“If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress more rationally than they have been wont to do. If they do this many prejudices...”
“That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for of judgment; a too vivid realization of the uncertainty of ev...”
