And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
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Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
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It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
