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Home Knowledge Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Polly, May 29, 2013

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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