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James A. Garfield Quotes: It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
         

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.


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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.



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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.



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