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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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