Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Thomas Carlyle · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 355

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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Thomas Carlyle · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 355

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