Quote#Wisdom
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure…
Quote byJames Fenimore Cooper · 1789–1851
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 21, Hawkeye.
English (original)
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
— James Fenimore Cooper
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