“Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.”

—  Elbert Hubbard

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters‎ (1899), p. 186.
Context: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.

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