Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams (1838–1918) American journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams, ch. 25 (1907)
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An upright minister asks, what recommends a man; a corrupt minister, who.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780–1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 9 (1820)
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Referring to government ministers and office-holders.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Devotions on Emergent Occasions, Meditation 17 (1624)
