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Quote by Alexander Pope
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no do

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

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Learning
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Observation
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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Tiger father begets tiger son. – Chinese Proverb

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You are my sonshine. – Author Unknown

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No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. – Epictetus

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