Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
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