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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."

"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
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