"Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience."

-- John Milton

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“Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.153
“If you want to make life easy, make it hard.”
“It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.”
“We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle”
“Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”
“No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.”
“The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.”
“I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.”

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