it is, in truth, the most ...

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld

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You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
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The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld