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" ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 211
των Samuel Johnson - 1840
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