A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Samuel JohnsonEnglish author and poet 18 September 1709 — 13 December 1784 |
quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel JohnsonPage 39 |
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