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Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. P...more

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I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times sev...more

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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school a...more

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved...more

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It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one—a modest, private affair, all to my...more

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for a...more

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bi...more

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, alo...more