If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
¶ (Attributed)
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Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
¶ (Attributed)
Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven hate you enough to hear your prayers!
¶ The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
¶ The Red Lily, ch. 7 (1884)
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