It Is A Special Trick Of Low Cunning To Squeeze Out Knowledge From A Modest Man, Who Is Eminent In Any Science, And Then To Use It As Legally Acquired, And Pass The Source In Total Silence.

It Is A Special Trick Of Low Cunning To Squeeze Out Knowledge From A Modest Man, Who Is Eminent In Any Science, And Then To Use It As Legally Acquired, And Pass The Source In Total Silence.

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It is a special trick of low cunning to squeeze out knowledge from
a modest man, who is eminent in any science, and then to use it as
legally acquired, and pass the source in total silence.
-- Horace Walpole

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