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|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur.  Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do.  The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br />
|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur.  Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do.  The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite>
|67 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
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Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act
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