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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."
"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"
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"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."
"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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