Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
- Sydney Smith