Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to followJohn Lubbock
Some words are like rays of sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent. And if hard words cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give.
John Lubbock
Marriage is a great responsibility. Do not trust altogether to, or be beguiled by, the eye, for marriages are not to be contracted by the hands and eye, but with reason and the heart.
John Lubbock
I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
John Lubbock
A room without books is as a body without a soul.
John Lubbock
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
John Lubbock
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