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The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. - Hosea Ballou Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. - Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham (f/k/a Richard Aungervyle) The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience; the stupid by necessity; and brutes by instinct. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
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