"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame."

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Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105

Jane Porter

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“Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.”
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
“My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.”
“In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.”
“The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.”
“It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”
“I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.”

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“Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.”

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