"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
-Horace Mann
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"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.“
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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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"To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike."
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