A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
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have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful. ... And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.Phaedrus
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
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Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.
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