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Quote by Jane Porter
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lam

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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. – Jane Porter

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. – Jane Porter

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Its hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldiers death. – Christopher Shays

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The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility. – Michael Gove

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. – Thomas Bulfinch

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