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Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue–a...
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The obvious is always least understood
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits...
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once...
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
Quote #2385
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Quote #8803
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch...
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing,...
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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill...
Quote #17232
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.