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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which childr...more

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.