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grammars instead of six, they will be working in cubes & cubic equations are even harder than quadratics.  The greatest heads in the world stop blank at a biquadratic. 

I appreciate stronger than ever [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] such men as Ollendorf & Mr. Gardel who have waded through such masses of stuff & afterwards have formed principles for themselves founded on simplicity. 

I regret having wasted so much of my time from want of experience, but everyone must do bad things before starting on a right road &. Be sure that whenever one affects learning he is not learned but is yet in the tangle.  When you first meet a word you can trace it in ten thousand directions which will do you no good, but take it right to the nearest little verb a slang word if you can.  By slang I mean the talk of sensible people who [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] have ideas which they are eager to express in a short way & who are not making conversation, and not the low meaningless expressions brought from England such as you are a brick &c. Leave fanciful derivations to those who want to be brilliant & thought learned but store up for yourself solid things, which are simplicity [[strikethrough]] themselves & un [[/strikethrough]]  

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