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- Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
- Archibald Alexander
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.
- Leone Levi
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