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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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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 know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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