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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper

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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a strangers treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enrolld me, minds are never to be sold. – William Cowper

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