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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ↗

— Plautus

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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. ↗

— Iggy Pop

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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. ↗

— Colin Powell

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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