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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Source: On the Ignorance of the Learned, in Edinburgh Magazine (July 1818; repr. in Table Talk, 1821).
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.

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