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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned u...  
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.   Education
Education is the transmission of civilization.   Education
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neigh...  
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I ha...  
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.  
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but yo...  
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.  
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to...  
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...  
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...  
The family is the nucleus of civilization.  
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that...  
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who won...  
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting ...  
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fe...  
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will...  
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and pe...  
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy...  
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothi...  
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Str...  
When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations,...  
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.