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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. read more
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp read more
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
