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For what is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction. For where a child has knowledge, he is no worse than we are.

τί γάρ ἐστι παιδίον; ἄγνοια. τί ἐστι παιδίον; ἀμαθία. ἐπεὶ ὅπου οἶδεν, κἀκεῖνα οὐδὲν ἡμῶν ἔλαττον ἔχει.

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