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Wisdom and Knowledge
By Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892)
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Bookish learning marks the fool?
’Tis because, though once befriended,
Learning’s pact with wisdom’s ended.
No philosophy e’er throve
In a nightcap by the stove.
Who the world would understand
In the world must bear a hand.
If you’re not to wisdom wed,
Like the camel you’re bested,
Which has treasures rich, to bear
Through the desert everywhere,
But the use must ever lack
Of the goods upon his back.