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For the more a man knows, the more worthy he is.

— Robert of Gloucester Rhyming Chronicle. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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England is a very good land; I judge the best of all lands, set in the one end of the world, in the extreme west. The sea goes all round it; it stands as in an island: they need have no fears of foes save through the treachery of the folk of the same land.

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