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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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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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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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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
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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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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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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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Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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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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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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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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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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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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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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