Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portio…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ✨ Aids to Reflection Introductory Aphorisms (1825)
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