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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and, because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and, because it has…”
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Coolidge warns against the tendency of the unlearned to mistake old ideas for new ones.
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