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“It is not the office that brings honour to the man, but the man to the office.”
― Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria

“I do not like a child that is a man too soon.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly

“For these kind of men that are so given up to the study of wisdom are generally most unfortunate, but chiefly in their children; Nature, it seems, so providently ordering it, lest this mischief of wisdom should spread further among mankind.”
― Erasmus, Praise of Folly

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”
― Franklin P. Jones