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"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."

"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, if he has the means to buy them."

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
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