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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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"And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23)."
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
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"The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."
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"Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply."
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"My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square."
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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."
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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."
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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
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"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Education
"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
Culture
"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."
Prayer
"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
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"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
Friendship
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."
Education
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