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Anthony Burgess Quotes: The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
         

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.


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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.



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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.



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