Knowledge alters everything & makes everything fit for use

Knowledge alters everything & makes everything fit for use. The vocabulary of two omniscient men would embrace words & images now excluded from all polite conversation. The wise will use the language which once he rejected. Wisdom is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:398

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