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Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all… — Learned Hand

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Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand
1893
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Reason and emotionKnowledgeEmotions
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1893
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Learned Hand
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Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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