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Give us, O give us, the man who is cheerful in his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time, he will do it better, he will persevere longer - Carlyle

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde

If at first you don't succeed, blame it on the teacher. - Stacey Bass

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician's paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks. - Bertrand Russell

Be yourself. The world worships the original. - Ingrid Bergman

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? - Beah Richards

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong - Albert Einstein

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life - to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them. - Alfred Torrie

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. - Benjamin Spock