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TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,—Most of us have a tendency on occasion to misquote, and some have a real genius for it; but it is surprising to find, our respected magistrate indulging in it. In a report in to-night’s issue His Worship is reported to have remarked: “ A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” How can knowledge of any description lie, of itself, dangerous ? Such perversion of his real meaning would surely cause to turn in his grave the man who wrote: “ A little learning is a dangerous thing.”— I am, etc., Mint Julep. January 29.
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Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 20
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