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François Rabelais on Knowledge

d. 1553 France

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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.

Pantagruel (1532)

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François Rabelais (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.