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"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry."

"He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him."

"Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."

"In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning."

"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."
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