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Need a reference for Blake quote

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  • 07-11-2006 2:19pm
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    catspring
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    Just wondering if anyone knows where exactly William Blake wrote that "to generalise is to be an idiot". I'm not sure where I first heard it, it seems to be one of those quotes that i just know. But I want to use it in an essay I'm writing and have been unable to find proper references for it.
    All help will be greatly appreciated ;)


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    Dave3x
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    Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, pp. xvii-xcviii (c. 1798-1809)

    according to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake

    Wikipedia- the source of all knowledge.


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    catspring
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭catspring


    thanks dave3x!
    the good old wikiweb, where would we be without it, eh?


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    The_Minister
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    I never knew that that was there! Time to find out who said my wittiest comments first.


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