“Knowledge or wealth to few are given,
But mark how just the ways of Heaven:
True joy to all is free.
Nor wealth nor knowledge grant the boon:
'Tis thine, O conscience, thine alone,
It all belongs to thee.”

— William Julius Mickle

Knowledge: an Ode (c. 1761)

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British writer 1734–1788

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