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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as...
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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work...
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are...
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them...
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable...
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Quote #27128
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight...