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It was obvious that insufficient education was a serious handicap.

— Michael Kurland Tomorrow Knight (1976)

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He takes every change that has taken place over the past two hundred years as a personal affront.

A Study in Sorcery (1989)

It’s what a man thinks is true which controls his actions, not what is really true.

Tomorrow Knight (1976)

The pleasure of receiving an accolade is somewhat diluted by the problem of living up to it.

A Study in Sorcery (1989)

“‘Be not the first by whom the new is tried,’ as that poet fellow said, ‘Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’”

Ten Little Wizards (1988)

There’s more leg room in first class, to be sure, but there’s more poetry in second class—and more honesty in third.

Ten Little Wizards (1988)

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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