“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

by Norman Douglas

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“A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.”

by George Bernard Shaw

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“Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”

by Will Durant

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“There’s some of Romeo’s romance in me… I romanticise a lot of things in my mind…”

by Leonardo DiCaprio

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“Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer’s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.”

by Ambrose Bierce

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“I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!”

by Robert Browning

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“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”

by Bette Davis

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“And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it’s always daisy-time.”

by D.H. Lawrence

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“When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.”

by Joni Mitchell

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