"Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial."
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, Vol. 2, Chapter 31, 1837.
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