Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense] you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
- Henry Thomas Buckle

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In 1850 Dmitri Mendeleev walked almost a thousand miles to Moscow so he could apply for the University of Moscow. He was not accepted, so he walked to St. Petersburg , where he was accepted. With that education, he later developed the Periodic Table of Elements.

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