A tale is told of a man in ...

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader.
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 Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
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