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The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

I don't like people
much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

There is no advance without strife.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.