Quote #4
We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.
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- The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
- We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.
- The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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