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"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
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"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."
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