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— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury"Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored."
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