The things taught in colleges and school are not an education but a means to an education.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.
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Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
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