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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
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Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
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I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
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Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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