All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
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Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.
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Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.
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