David Foster Wallace/work

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    We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Sadly I roam,
    Still longing for de old plantation,
    And for de old folks at home.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)

    I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)