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Try to know everything of something and something of everything. Henry Peter, Lord Brougham and Vaux

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	Henry Peter, Lord Brougham and Vaux
	(1778-1868) Scottish jurist, political leader, founded Edinburgh Review, great influence.

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Try to know everything of something and something of everything.

In my mind, he was guilty of no error he was chargeable with no exaggeration he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.