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    Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
    —18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
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    Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically—while simulating a triumphant march forward—than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    A mother understands what a child does not say.
    —Jewish Proverb (20th century)