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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and…
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than…

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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. — James Truslow Adams
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. — Edward Gibbon
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and… — Edward Gibbon
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. — John Adams

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