We must learn that competence ...

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.
 C. A. Bartol

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Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.
 C. A. Bartol
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
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Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
 C. A. Bartol