young white, gathers learning books measure knows page, conceit knowle — James Fenimore Cooper, Last Mohicans

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Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

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