François Rabelais: Then I began to think, that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the o

Then I began to think, that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one — François Rabelais

Then I began to think, that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

François Rabelais

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A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime. — Sydney Smith
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. — Samuel Butler
The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament a — Leonardo da Vinci
Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen. — I know all that better than my own name. Martial
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One of the sublimest things in this world is plain truth. — Edward Bulwer Lytton
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