"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority."
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Source: Androcles and the Lion preface (1913)
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