The Norwich Courier Trades Insults with The Unionist
Norwich Courier
Norwich Courier 1833-12-18
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The Unionist says that we “exposed nothing but our own ignorance”—Indeed? If we exhibit nothing else, we may be considered very happy. There are some that we wot of who do expose something besides their ignorance—videlicet, a goodly share of self-conceit—and they are so placed side by side as to be equally conspicuous.
There is nothing of which we are more sensible than our own deficiencies, but some of the wise ones who occasionally put us in mind of them, neither point them out nor suggest their remedy, & we of course must remain in our ignorance. We cannot boast of our acquirements.
“Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
“Have ofttimes no connexion—
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“Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much ;
“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
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It seems that the trading of insults between these two papers is rising to the level of a game of Dozens.
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