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Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Pedagogy 1803, tr. Robert B. Louden, p. 443, in: Anthropology, History, and Education (Cambridge, 2007):
But a tree which stands alone in the field grows crooked and spreads its branches wide. By contrast, a tree which stands in the middle of the forest grows straight towards the sun and air above it, because the trees offer opposition.
George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse & Other Essays (London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 [1913]), 162-3: . . . hi...
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