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Gilbert Highet Quotes: What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
         

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?


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He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.



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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.



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If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.



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Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.



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Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.





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