"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love"
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Source: The Cat and the Moon (1924) Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The
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