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Literary quote?
Category: Reference, Education and News > Education Asked by: jwindows-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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23 Oct 2003 19:34 PDT
Expires: 22 Nov 2003 18:34 PST Question ID: 269245 |
"You'll never meet a man who can't teach you something." Is this the correct quote and which novel did it come from? One of the great american literature classics I read in high school had a quote similar to the one listed above. If I recall correctly, a father said it to his impressionable young son. Possibly Nick's father in The Great Gatsby or from the novel... Winesburg, Ohio or another novel? |
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Re: Literary quote?
From: pinkfreud-ga on 23 Oct 2003 19:46 PDT |
Here's a quote from Booker T. Washington that is similar: "I said to myself that I would try to learn something from every man I met; make him my text-book, read him, study him, and learn something from him." http://docsouth.unc.edu/washeducation/washing.html This quote from Galileo also bears a resemblance to your quote: "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." http://www.creativequotations.com/one/591.htm Neither of these involved a father saying this to his son, however. |
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Re: Literary quote?
From: pinkfreud-ga on 23 Oct 2003 21:49 PDT |
How about "I never saw the man that couldn't teach me something," a quote from "The Poet at the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.? http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/ptabt11.txt |
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