The Oracle in _Erewhon_

The answer given by the oracle was originally written concerning any

vice—say drunkenness, but it applies to many another—and I wrote not

“sins” but “knows”: {26}

He who knows aught

Knows more than he ought;

But he who knows nought

Has much to be taught.

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