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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
"This is the eternal challenge with ignorance - ignorance can't see itself."
"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
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"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
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