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Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Plutarch
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
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