#common mind

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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