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    “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength
    because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the
    avenger.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm VIII (l. VIII, 2)

    “History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.”
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    “Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.””
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