"I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so."
— Josh Billings

January 1, 1970

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Compare with letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Reverend James Madison of 19 July 1788, "It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."