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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with B >> Quotes By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
| Quote #1: | "Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity." |
| Quote #2: | "To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination." |
| Quote #3: | "Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention." |
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