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Oscar Wilde

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.

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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

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