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Soon, in all parts of our country, in each neglected village, or new settlement, the Christian female teacher will quietly take he ...
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused w ...
'Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,--of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the ...
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild ...
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this ...
"We must take things more cheerfully than they deserve; especially since we have for a long time taken them more seriously than th ...
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd rea ...
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outside ...
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying....
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature ...
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