“5085. 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“For easier 'tis to learn and recollect
What moves derision than what claims respect.”
Book II, epistle i, p. 160
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles
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