"Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint."
— Reading

January 1, 1970

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John of Salisbury Policraticus Bk. 7, ch. 10; John Dickinson (trans.) The Statesman's Book of John of Salisbury ([1927] 1963).