It is commonly the way with great persons to disdain learning any thing from their inferiors.
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Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754
It is commonly the way with great persons to disdain learning any thing from their inferiors.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
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