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" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. "

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" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "

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" The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. "

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" The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. "

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