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"A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
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"Always educate yourself regardless of how old you are."
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"Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?"
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"People should train their brain by watching films, by listening music, by playing games, by reading quotes. If people do this, I can said from this a big percent from here you can become clever."
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"Even the names of the books gave me food for thought."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."
Time
"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
Man
"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
Man
"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon."
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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
Friendship
"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."
Life
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."
Man
"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
Work
"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
Trust
"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."
Death
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