The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.