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"it is necessarie yee delight in reading, and seeking the knowledge of all lawfull things; but with these two restrictions: first, ye choose idle houres for it, not interrupting therewith the discharge of your office: and next, that yee studie not for knowledge nakedly, but that your principall ende be, to make you able thereby to use your office - James I Basilikon Doron." - I'm all in favour of naked knowledge.
— Jul 19, 2019 04:54AM
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"More, the principal thrust of Montaigne's essay - that barbourousness is determined by behaviour, not ethnicity - is crucial to Shakespeare's portrayal of the shipwrecked courtiers." Four hundred years later we're still struggling with this one.
— Jul 19, 2019 04:58AM
