Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon. - George Eliot

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George Eliot: "Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon."

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Babylon	Blind	Buried	Conscience
Dark	Fabric	Giant	Good
Having	Hold	Human	Ignorance
Knowledge	Longwrought	Make	Must
Pillars	Places	Power	Reined
Scruple	Seize	Sport	Truth
Turn	Unbound	Whereas

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