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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
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The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which read more
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
