"So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces."

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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

— William Godwin