5.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
The State and Revolution (1917)
“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
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Italian poet, philosopher and writer 1798–1837Related quotes
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Verse 16.
To Demonicus
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Colette
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Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted https://books.google.com/books?id=5KMkAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22+intitle%3A%22Earthly+Paradise%22+inauthor%3AColette&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22You+must+not+pity+me+because+my+sixtieth+year+finds+me+still+astonished.+To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22 in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (autobiography, 1966) ed. Robert Phelps
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Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 364
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