The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I don't THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.Plato
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
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