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“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with Gods Will.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (18001878)
“Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.”
—First published in Girls Home Companion (1895)
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