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"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"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."
"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"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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"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
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