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I would far rather, he said,
gpt
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If there be one thing on earth, he observed on another occasion,
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Speaking of a pupil of this character, he said,
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I would stand to that man hat in hand. Once at Laleham, when teaching a rather dull boy, Arnold spoke somewhat sharply to him, on which the pupil looked up in his face and said,
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Why do you speak angrily, sir? _indeed_, I am doing the best I can. Years afterward, Arnold used to tell the story to his children, and added,
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I never felt so much ashamed in my life--that look and that speech I have never forgotten.
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It was there that the battle of Waterloo was won!
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Every kind of knowledge, said he,
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But a still more important use of active employment is that referred to by the great divine, Jeremy Taylor.
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Avoid idleness, he says,
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I believe if I get on well in India, it will be owing, physically speaking, to a sound digestion. The capacity for continuous working in any calling must necessarily depend in a great measure upon this; and hence the necessity for attending to health, even as a means of intellectual labor. It is perhaps to the neglect of physical exercise that we find amongst students so frequent a tendency toward discontent, unhappiness, inaction, and reverie--displaying itself in contempt for real life and disgust at the beaten tracks of men--a tendency which in England has been called Byronism, and in Germany Wertherism. Dr. Channing noted the same growth in our land, which led him to make the remark, that