“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.”
Source: 1850s, A treatise on differential equations (1859), p. vi; cited in: Quotations by George Boole http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Quotations/Boole.html, MacTutor History of Mathematics, August 2010.
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