"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."

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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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"Time is a precious gift."

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