I like to have a man’s knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, III]
liberal arts
in Gramarye
Sir Ector said,
“After all, damn it all, we can’t have the boys runnin’ about all day like hooligans–after all, damn it all? Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff at five o’clock every mornin’. Happiest time of me life. Pass the port.”
[T.H. White, The Once & Future King]
Seven Roads: Notes 