A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.
Source: Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature
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A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.
I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.
Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.
That is to hear the better, my child.