You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

Rafael Sabatini
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  1. Love, too, has to be learned. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. - Michel De Montaigne

  3. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. - Sarah Dessen

  4. One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed. - Richelle E. Goodrich

  5. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire

More Quotes By Rafael Sabatini
  1. But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'' God made you that, Aline.

  2. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a...

  3. Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

  4. Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

  5. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

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