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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live wel

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. – Thomas a Kempis

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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. – David Amram

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