"How often have we heard from a large class of men wise in their generation, who would really seem to be born and bred for no other purpose than to pass into currency counterfeit and mischievous scraps of wisdom...that a 'little learning is a dangerous thing.' Why a little hanging was considered a dangerous thing, according to the same authorities, with this difference, that, because a little hanging was dangerous, we had a great deal of it; and, because a little learning was dangerous, we were to have none of it at all."
From a Speech given by Dickens on October 5, 1843 at a fund raiser for the Manchester Athenaeum, the industrial capital's primary beacon of arts and enlightenment.
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