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“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter, July 1, 1748.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 11b66bb69156794059f8484cf951b1939c629ef7717e0173b8efc160825ce585
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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