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Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.
Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
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- Ben Jonson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1573–1637)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 71 · printed citation: Ben Jonson · subject: Education
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