Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

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I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.

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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

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Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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