"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray"
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Source: The Countess Kathleen (1892) When You Are Old
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