“Beware the man of a single book.”

— Thomas Aquinas

As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012
Variant: "Beware the man of one book."
See also: Homo unius libri
Disputed
Variant: I fear the man of a single book.

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Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.

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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

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