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Quote by Leo Strauss
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. – Leo Strauss

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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. – Edgar R. Fiedler

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You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. – Ethel Barrymore

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