Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following the ruts of conventionality. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so, you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.
— Alexander Graham Bell Modern

Telephone inventor

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Speech to students

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c. 1910s

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Strange & Unusual

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https://bell.library.utoronto.ca/people/bell_alexander_graham.html

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