"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away."
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Source: 'From Oedipus at Colonus'.
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