Natural ability, without education, has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A home without books is a body without soul.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Take from a man his reputation for probity and the more shrewd and clever he is the more hated and

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously or remains so firmly fixed in the memory as something which you

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

    Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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