“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.