In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.John Ruskin
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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