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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander
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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. — William Alexander

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William Alexander was a politician from United Kingdom (1874–1954).

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William Alexander lived from 1874 – 1954.
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