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

— Colin Powell

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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus. ↗

— Sid Waddell

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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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