We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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    Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

    Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

    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.

    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to

    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

    I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

    I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

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