List of Schools in Edinburgh/state Schools

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    The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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    Lastly, his tomb
    Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
    And none shall speak his name.
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    The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
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