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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
         

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.


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This page presents the quote "A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.". Author of this quote is Henry David Thoreau. This quote is about knowledge, ignorance, men, beautiful, useless, sometimes, ugly,.