"Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."

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“A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“Sir Roger made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe...with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”

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— D. H. Lawrence

Literature1885–1930

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"Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but …"

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Philosophy1767–1835

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— John Stuart Mill

Philosophy1806–1873

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— Leon Trotsky

Politics1879–1940

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