Education is the best provision for old age.

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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Hope is a waking dream.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

—Ann Radcliffe

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

—Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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Nature was my kindergarten.

—William Christopher Handy

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