"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
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Source: The Countess Kathleen (1892) When You Are Old
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