THE PLACE OF THE IDIOT
ὁ ἀναπληρῶν τὸν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Same empire of confident illiterates, different day
Th' illiterate writer, emperick like applies
To minds diseas'd unsafe chance remedies.
The learn'd in schools, where knowledge first began,
Studies with care th' anatomy of man;
Sees virtue, vice, and passions in their cause,
And fame from science, not from fortune draws.
-- John Dryden
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