"They know enough who know how to learn."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

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"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

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