178.--What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we h… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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178.--What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over those who know less.
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