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 | "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence
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Found in the topic Eternity.
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| "American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs
silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it." | |
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Found in the topic Society.
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| "Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by
applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels." | |
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Found in the topic Taste.
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| "Practical politics consists of ignoring facts." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest,
or Senator, and remain fit for anything else." | |
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Found in the topic Congress.
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| "Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they
will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most
cases, ends by settling the moral." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "A friend in power is a friend lost." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it
accumulates in the form of inert facts." | |
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Found in the topic Astonish.
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| "It is impossible to underrate human intelligence ? beginning with
one"s own." | |
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Found in the topic Intelligent.
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| "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned,
especially if he has doubts about it himself." | |
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Found in the topic Inferior.
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| "Morality is a private and costly luxury." | |
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Found in the topic Morality.
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| "Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "They know enough who know how to learn." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average
intelligence." | |
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Found in the topic Immorality.
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