The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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