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There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Thomas De Quincey, (Aug 15 1785-1859), English essayist, critic; He is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

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