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Quote by George Eliot
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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All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. – Seth Godin

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann

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