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also how to dance. To which he replied: Certainly.I do not suppose, I said, that you have attained such a degree of skill as to do sword-dancing, or be whirled about on a wheel, at your time of life?There is nothing, he said, that I cannot do.Then tell me, I went on, do you know everything at present only, or for ever?For ever too, he said.And when you were children, and were just born, you knew?Everything, they both replied together.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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