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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
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Ignorance
Wonder
Knowledge
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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