Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
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