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“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.”

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Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing…

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The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

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Every government is always growing corrupt.

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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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