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" Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

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

" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "

" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "

" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "

" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "

" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "

" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "

" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "

" 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. "

" What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? "

" Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. "

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" Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. "

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" Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. "

" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "

" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

" It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. "

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" There is no wealth but life. "

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" The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. "