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There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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