It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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