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 “The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.

Knowledge without character.

Commerce without morality.

Science without humanity.

Worship without sacrifice.

Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”

― Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

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“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

― Giacomo Leopardi.


“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.


"Four be the things I am wiser to know:

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I'd been better without:

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:

Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”

― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

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“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta.

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost.

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.

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