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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son."
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
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"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."
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"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
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"For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?"
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature."
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