The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.Dean Inge
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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