Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "spectacles" to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges. - William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt: "Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "spectacles" to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges."

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Blinds	Books	Cases	Common
Dispositions	Drudges	Eyes	Foil
Indolent	Keep	Knowledge	Learned
Learning	Light	Literary	Look
Made	Mere	Nature	Often
Scenery	Sense	Shifting	Spectacles
Strong	Substitute	True	Weak

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