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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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It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

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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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Youth is wasted on the young.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when ...more

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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

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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.

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The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two black...more

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.