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Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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