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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 5620 |
| QUOTATION: | ... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919), U.S. author; born in Scotland. All the Days of My Life, ch. 22 (1913). On being treated rudely by a mathematics teacher. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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