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Quote by Alexander Pope
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tre

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the trees inclined. – Alexander Pope

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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and offrings, and a thankful strain. – Alexander Pope

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thanksgiving
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Alexander Pope
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reservd to blame, or to commend,
A timrous foe, and a suspicious friend. – Alexander Pope

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Satire
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Alexander Pope
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I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal. – Bill Cosby

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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. – Bill Richardson

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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. – John le Carre

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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis

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