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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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