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21 " The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with other people. "
― Horace Mann
22 " The most ignorant are the most conceited. "
― Horace Mann , Lectures On Education
23 " Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge. "
24 " A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. "
25 " The best teachers teach from the heart, not the book. "
26 " In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. "
27 " Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. "
28 " all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference. "
― Horace Mann , On the Art of Teaching
29 " Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. "
― Horace Mann , Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann
30 " Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. "
