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The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the read more
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
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In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
