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No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man. learning & wisdom
John Selden was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."