"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."

-- Mary Ellen Chase

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“I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.”
“Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!”
“My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.”
“The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.”
“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
“To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.”
“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”
“...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.”

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