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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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Happiness
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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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Wisdom
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Jane Porter
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I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. – Nicholas Brendon

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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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When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. – Abu Bakr

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. – Brigham Young

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All generalizations are false, including this one. – Mark Twain

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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. – Joan Baez

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The more he cast away the more he had. – John Bunyan

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