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"Aren't you missing a lot of fun? You know, one's young for such a little while."

— W. Somerset Maugham

Literature1874–1965

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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful …"

— John Locke

Philosophy1943–2006

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"Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance."

— Andrew Jackson

Politics1963

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"I say that it is possible to have some knowledge without the help of the senses. For in the Divine Mind all knowledge exists from eternity, and not only is there in it certain knowledge of universals …"

— Robert Grosseteste

Religion1175–1253

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