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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

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Plato
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
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