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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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