"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."

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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."

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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

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