"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
-Henry Adams
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"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.“
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
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