"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."

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"Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine."

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"Personal ignorance leads to a negative impact on the society."

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"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."

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"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's."

Man

"It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly."

Man

"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."

Judgment

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Attention

"It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."

Man

"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"

Truth

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."

Family

"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."

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"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."

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