“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world”

— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

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