Books may sleep for a while and be neglected but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.Ann Plato
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
Oh may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire . . .
Ann Plato
A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
One science, however, there is, worth more than all the rest, and that is the science of living well -- which shall remain when tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall vanish away.
Ann Plato
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