“SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.”
Diana Wynne Jones book The Tough Guide To Fantasyland
Source: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
“What wise or stupid thing can man conceive
That was not thought of in ages long ago?”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, book Faust
Act II, The Gothic Chamber
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
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