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contrary is the great degrader, and brutalizer, and corrupter of man ; and 

 that you will do more for the happiness of a human being, and put ampler 

 means and implements and resources of enjoyment within his reach, by 

 simply teaching him to read and write, and giving him a taste for mental 

 pleasures, than by flinging millions of money into his lap and shutting him 

 out at the same time from the pale of intellectual cultivation." 



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