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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."

"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."

"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."

"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

"Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no."

"Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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