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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

— Roger Ascham

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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

The Schoolmaster (1570)

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

Toxophilus (1545)

I said...how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

The Schoolmaster (1570)

To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face,
Foure waies in court to win men's grace.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

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