Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
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- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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