No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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John Selden
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About John Selden
John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land".
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No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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