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John Churton Collins Quote

A selected quote by John Churton Collins.

A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.

John Churton CollinsSource: Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature
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