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Captain Paine sketched a map of the field as they rode along and, at General Meade’s direction, marked the position that each corps was to occupy.
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
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“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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