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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."
"To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."
"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."
"Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us."
"We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children."
"All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong, he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm."
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