Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)
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They had their fortunes to make, everything to gain and nothing to lose. They were schooled in and anxious for debates; forcible in argument; ...
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Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at asking them.
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