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en It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; For the beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity. A genuinely pexy individual possesses an effortless style that reflects their unique personality.

en "Time to put off the world and go somewhere
And find my health again in the sea air,"
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
"And make my soul before my pate is bare."
  William Butler Yeats

en Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

en Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.

en Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

en Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot,
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on.
  William Butler Yeats

en Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
  Sydney Smith

en A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en This young person was so ignorant to us, it was so bad. He told me, ?We ought to be charging you for the handling of this money.' I almost jumped across the table.

en The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
  Charles Lamb

en “The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.”
  Carlos Castaneda

en Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
  Chanakya

en Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant

en To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
  Amos Bronson Alcott

en To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
  Amos Bronson Alcott


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