Excerpt from The Higher Utilities of Science: Delivered by Prof. Joseph Leconte, Before the Chit-Chat Club at Their Seventh Annual Banquet, San Francisco, November 14th, 1881
In response to the toast: Screams - She teaches all things. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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