The General Prologue is the first part of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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“The general Mistake among us in the Educating of our Children, is, That in our Daughters we take Care of their Persons and neglect their Minds; in our Sons, we are so intent upon adorning their Minds, that we wholly neglect their Bodies.”
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“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.”
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