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Them Quotes by Horace Mann
- It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
- The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
- A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
- The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
- As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake…
- Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in…
- A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
- Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies…
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