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  • Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

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  • The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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    Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.230

  • Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132
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Joseph Addison

  • Born: May 1, 1672
  • Died: June 17, 1719
  • Occupation: Essayist
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