“Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;
Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.”

—  Arthur Hugh Clough

The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/bothie_01.html, Pt. IV (1848).

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