"A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many."

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Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.

— Robert Svoboda