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He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- Sir Richard Steele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1671–1729)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Learning · anthology attribution: Steele
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