Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself acceptedin the competition of the market.
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If we are only as the potters clay Made to be fashioned as the artist wills, And broken into shards if we offend The eye of Him who made us, it is well.
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