"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown."
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Source: William Butler Yeats, “A Man Young And Old”
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