Quote by Mark Twain
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. – Mark Twain

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. – George Bernard Shaw

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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but theres all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. – Arthur Gordon

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