“First come I; my name is Jowett.
There's no knowledge but I know it.
I am master of this college:
What I don't know isn't knowledge.”

—  Henry Charles Beeching

The Masque of Balliol http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html (1880)

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English clergyman, author and poet 1859–1919

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