803. Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a…

Quote byThomas Fuller · 1654–1734

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Gnomologia (1732).

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803. Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.

— Thomas Fuller

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