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Quote by William Cowper
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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