The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite…

Umberto Eco
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. ✨ Umberto Eco (2013). Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, p.20, Columbia University Press
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