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Licensing is the greatest discouragement and affront to learning and learned men
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- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
I lastly proceed from the no good it can do, to the manifest hurt it causes, in being first the greatest discouragement and affront that can be offered to learning, and to learned men.
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↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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