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Originally Posted by BenG
"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
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"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned." --
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.