Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better …

William James
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. ✨ William James (1987). Essays, Comments, and Reviews, p.108, Harvard University Press
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. ✨ William James (1987). Essays, Comments, and Reviews, p.108, Harvard University Press

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