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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
Man

"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Work

"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
Life

"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
Life

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.""
Success

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Peace

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Beauty

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
Lie

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
Education

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
Man
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