“Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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