“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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