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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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