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A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

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Gentleman

Law

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Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education

Leadership

Teaching

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Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth – of carefully respecting the property of others – of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

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I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,–violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.

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Men

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I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,–habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

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In my mind, he was guilty of no error – he was chargeable with no exaggeration – he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

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Kings

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It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

Men

Political

Support

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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

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Reading

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Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, – a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array…

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Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

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Children

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