A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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Love is a boy by poets styl'd Then spare the rod and spoil the child.Samuel Butler
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon.
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