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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922)
Printed page 44 · quotation 5 · Ben Jonson · Every Man Out of his Humour. Act I. Sc. 1.
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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