The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.Ernest Dimnet
When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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