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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. -

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. – George Eliot

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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. – Chanakya

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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. – Henry Mayhew

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. – George Gurdjieff

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