"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."
— Knowledge

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Johnson (1763), Boswell's Life of Johnson. Conversation on Saturday, July 30, 1763. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.