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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Franklin
Massachusetts
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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Keep one thing in view forever- the truth and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
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If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
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School is the cheapest police.
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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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