The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
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