To gather greatness, we must know and embrace the greatness of the past. It is essential that you give your time and mind to the classics, for they will inform the passages that brought us here, and the ones you may construct for the future.
Learn to speak and write well, so that you will stand out in a crowd not just for your thoughts and ideas, but for the panache with which you express them. Language gives one originality and culture. The best erudition may be found lacking if it walks with the crutches of picayune speech.
It is not always easy to do, but keep Truth at the center of your transactions, and as your perennial guide. Character, after all, is the true measure of a man, and nothing informs it better than adherence to the truth.
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