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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.

— Francis Bacon, The Essayes or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=9WZrLM6A4SEC

From the essay "Of Studies".

Topics: learning, life