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“What is the first business of one who studies philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7cc307913df628ab514efca3a18553825a71e93e33aacc6c6ee6b270cd159e7a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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