| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12874 |
| QUOTATION: | Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), British poet, critic. Aids to Reflection, “Introductory Aphorisms,” no. 27 (1825), repr. In Works, vol. I, ed. Professor Shedd (1853). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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