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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Marcus Tulius Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Marcus Tulius Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote thes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century468 quotes