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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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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. – Mark Twain

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