"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon."
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Source: W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”
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