"I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves."

-- Helen Herron Taft

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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!”
“I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.”
“The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.”
“There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.”
“The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.”
“Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.”
“Thousands of stars in the night sky, And shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Especially in sunny weather. Millions of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Thousands of leaves in the fall, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one father, that's all. Happy Birthday To the One and Only”

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