"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-George Herbert
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"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.“
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"Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
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"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."
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"Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
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