That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
~ Will Rogers
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The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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There is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means to become an adult.
~ William Deresiewicz
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.
~ Will Rogers
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In the primitive state of human knowledge there is no regular division of intellectual labour. Every student cultivates all the sciences. As knowledge accrues, the sciences part off; and students devote themselves each to some one branch.
~ Auguste Comte
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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