What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

-- Joseph Addison

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

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