In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." - Meaning and context.">
Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

— Doris Lessing

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." in the context of "Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Doris Lessing

About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British writer, born Doris May Tayler. In October 2007, Lessing became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in its 106-year history, and its oldest ever recipient.