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“On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."”
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- Aristotle. xi.
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- d841761670861f52b213f126a20026e372bfdf654b2e8e40070195cc7e467f00
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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