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• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
• When we build, let us think that we build forever.
• In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,…
• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
• Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
• All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

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