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  • Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

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    Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.105
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Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. - Samuel Johnson
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