Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract k... - Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

"Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge."

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