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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”
“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”
“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”
“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”
“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”
“And all my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears.”