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"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."
"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."
"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."
"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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