Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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