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  • The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

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    Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.9
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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. - Thomas de Quincey
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