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LAW & HISTORY > antiquarian, writer > John Aubrey
He was wont...
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He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Source: Brief Lives, Thomas Hobbes, 1813; repr. in Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings by John Aubrey, ed. Anthony Powell, 1949.
-- John Aubrey, (Mar 12 1626-1697), English antiquarian, writer; He is best known for his vivid, intimate, and sometimes acid biographical sketches of his contemporaries.