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Quote by Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. – Joseph Addison

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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. – Joseph Addison

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt

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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, theyre 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. – Ed Markey

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