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Getting Married Is Like Putting One's Hand In A Bag Containing 99 Serpents And One Eel.

For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.

Most People Know Nothing About Learning; Many Despise It. Dummies Reject As Too Hard Whatever Is Not Dumb.

Instead Of Inflicting These Horrible Punishments, It Would Be Far More To The Point To Provide Everyone With Some Means Of Livelihood, So That Nobody's Under The Frightful Necessity Of Becoming, First A Thief, And Then A Corpse.

Rose! Thou Art The Sweetest Flower That Ever Drank The Amber Shower: Even The Gods, Who Walk The Sky, Are Amourous Of Thy Scented Sigh.