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For the Christian Fathers he was a model of the good pagan. St. Jerome, ashamed of what he felt was an excessive partiality for a heathen author, would undertake a fast, so that he could study Cicero afterwards.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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