Quote #19

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

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  1. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
  2. Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
  4. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence…
  5. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on t…
  6. Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
  7. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
  8. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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