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It Was A Saying Of His That Education Was An Ornament In Prosperity And A Refuge In Adversity.
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It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity
and a refuge in adversity.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Aristotle, xi
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