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Of a truth, knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried babylon.
-George Eliot
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Of A Truth, Knowledge Is Power, But

George Eliot
Of a truth, knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried babylon.
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