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George Kittredge: Opinions & Facts

The great Shakespearean scholar George Kittredge once confronted a student asserting the right to his own opinion. "No man, sir," Kittredge replied, "has a right to his opinion until he makes himself acquainted with the facts."


Kittredge, George Lyman (1860-1941) American scholar; Harvard professor of English (from 1894) [noted for his work on medieval English poetry]


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