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Sin is a gravitation.

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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a ...more

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

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Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools o...more

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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the ...more

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Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer f...more

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To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law...more

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like ...more

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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want ...more

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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produce...more

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Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It ...more

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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nouri...more