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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. – Frederick William Robertson

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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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