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“For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.”
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
― Parable of the Talents
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
― Parable of the Talents
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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