The world is governed more by appearances than by realities,

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• Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
  Count...
• If you seem to know what you are doing,
  you'll be given more to do...
• Education is when you learn something that you didn't even KNOW that you didn't know.
  Daniel...
• An authority is a person who can tell you more about
  something than you really care to know...
• An authority is somebody who can tell you more about
  something than you really care to know...
• It is a lot more fun to suspect someone of something
  than to know the true facts of the case under discussion...