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  • Learned men†do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller. 46

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      The Advancement of Learning, bk.1.

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