Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. β¨ John Henry Newman (1873). The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University, p.103
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