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- Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
- John Collins (1919 - )
- Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
- Nathaniel Emmons
- The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)
- No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
- Ernest Dimnet
- Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
- James Thomson
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
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