Quote by James Payn
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere fro

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. – 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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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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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. – Sloane Crosley

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. – William Glasser

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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. – Jeffrey Archer

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As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, its like were downgrading if you look at the investment in education… thats the thing that worries me. – will.i.am

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. – Antonio Gaudi

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