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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. – Richard Cecil

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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