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Education is the cheap defence of nations
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it
Observation more than books, and experience more than persons, are the prime educators
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook
Nine tenths of education is encouragement
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous
Education is that which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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