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Quote by Havelock Ellis
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be main

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. – Havelock Ellis

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Charm – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. – Havelock Ellis

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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. – Havelock Ellis

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis

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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter

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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. – Boris Spassky

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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes

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