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Making the blacksmith a scholar is almost, but not quite, as silly as making the scholar a blacksmith
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- W. E. B. Du Bois American scholar and civil rights leader (1868 to 1963)
And to seek to make the blacksmith a scholar is almost as silly as the more modern scheme of making the scholar a blacksmith; almost, but not quite.
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↗The Souls of Black Folk (1903)gutenberg.org
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