Men are never taught to be gentlemen, and are taught everything else; … — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Men are never taught to be gentlemen, and are taught everything else; and they never plume themselves so much on the rest of their knowledge as on knowing how to be gentlemen. They only plume themselves on knowing the one thing they do not know.

Place: SECTION II · ¶212
License: Public domain · Source
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