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"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled." »Wu Ting-Fang
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"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." »Washington Irving
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"A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." »Washington Irving
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"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." »Nicholas Chamfort
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"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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