Five Fortunes

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not
advice, it is merely custom.
-- Mark Twain

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
-- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"

You will step on the night soil of many countries.

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty
attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool
takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge
which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with
a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his
brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing
his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect
order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and
can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every
addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of
the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out
the useful ones.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"

Five Fortunes

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