“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
A. J. Cronin
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“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know — and that the less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows everything.”