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This power of attention is that which perhaps more than any thing else distinguishes those who do great things from those who can do nothing well.

— 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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