Quote#Art
There is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of .…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Aids to Reflection (1825), The Author's Preface, pp. xvi–xvii.
English (original)
There is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of . If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? In like manner, there is one knowledge, which it is in every man's interest and duty to acquire, namely, : or to what end was man alone, of all animals, endowed by the Creator with the faculty of self-consciousness?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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