Fahrenheit 451 Literacy Quotes – Flashcards
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Who are a little wise, the best fools be
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John Donne The Triple Fool
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All we like sheep have gone astray
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Bible
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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning
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William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
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They are never alone that are accompanied
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Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge
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Sir Philip Sidney The Defense of Poetry
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Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found
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Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
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A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force
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Dr. Samuel Johnson Rasselas
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
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Dr. Samuel Johnson The Idler
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Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long
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William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
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He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
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William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
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The Devil can cite Scripture for his Purpose
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William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
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This age thinks better of a gilded fool, than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school
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Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting
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Ben Jonson Cateline Conspiracy
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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer
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Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy
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Knowledge is power
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Francis Bacon Meditationes Sacrae
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A dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on
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Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us
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Paul Valéry Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci
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A kind of excellent dumb discourse
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William Shakespeare The Tempest
