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Art & Imagination

A quote by William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper

From the source

The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 96.

Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.