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Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.
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Seward argues that education significantly influences human development.
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She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all--she is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
It should be your care therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children, and exalt their courage, to accelerate and animate their industry and activity, to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice…
In unfolding to my countrymen the principles by which I shall be governed, in the fulfilment of those duties, my first resort will be to that constitution which I shall swear, to the best of my ability, to preserve, protect, and defend.
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