“He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.”

—  Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis, The Scholar of Thibét Ben Khorat, II. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

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