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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
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John Lancaster Spalding
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Born:
June 2, 1840
Died:
August 25, 1916
(aged 76)
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John Lancaster Spalding was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
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Means and ends of education (1895)
Education and the higher life (1890)
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