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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. – James Payn

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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. – James Payn

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Happiness
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James Payn
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How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is! – James Payn

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Food
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. – Joseph Brodsky

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. – Galileo Galilei

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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. – Gustave Flaubert

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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. – Proverb

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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. – Anna Quindlen

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Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. – Henry Ward Beecher

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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