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• The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the…
• At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from…
• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the…
• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
• All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more…
• Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair…
• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right…
• Is human love the growth of the human will ?
• Art, that great undogmatized church.
• The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but…
• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
• All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

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