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|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
|50 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
|50 = '''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>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>

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That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense.
Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory
       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing