The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
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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.
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It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
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