Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann
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  1. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  2. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  3. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

  4. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  5. Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

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