Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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"You are beautiful when you are happy."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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