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America has always been a country of amateurs where the profession

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. – Tom Hopkins

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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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