"Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws."

-- Horace Mann

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“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
“I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.”
“The future has a lot to do with the past.”
“I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.”
“People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'”

Source : "Sid Caesar's Comic Legacy". Interview With Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com.
“If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.”
“There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.”
“The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.518

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