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Every man who observes, must have seen what bad listeners most people are. Inability to attend carefully to what is spoken is a great defect, which leads to blunders, misrepresentation, and sometimes to quarrels.

— George Long

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It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.

All education which is in its kind complete and good, is the means of forming character, and of making useful men and women.

He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.

I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools.

A man who attempts to debate when he cannot listen must make a wretched display of impotence.

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