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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical…
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider…
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
— George Orwell
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No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He…
— James M. Barrie
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Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned…
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I had had a classical education prior to that.
— Skitch Henderson
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
— Unknown Author
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It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good…
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