Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
Lord Melbourne 01/12/1841
Granted that he was right in the first transition, he should not have repeated it; the character of public men cannot stand two wuch shocks.
Lord Rosebery
Category: Character
Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?
Hugh Dalton
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