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Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

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If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

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I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

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Our danger is not too few, but too many options. . . to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

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Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

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Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

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