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Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Approximate author period: c. 1714 AD · early modern
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- Viscount Bolingbroke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1714 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 249 · printed citation: Bolingbroke · subject: Study
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