“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a…”

— Thomas Szasz

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

— John Milton

“Be attentive therefore, according to the instruction of the Gospel, to learn obedience from the lily and the bird.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”

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