Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.


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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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