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School is the cheapest police.

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Cheapest
Police
School

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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
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In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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