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Quotation by Desiderius Erasmus
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A Letter to Martin Dorp (1515)In Praise of Folly trans. by Leonard Dean, Packard, Chicago (1946)Praise of Folly (1509)Proverbs or Adages of Erasmus ed. Richard Taverner (1545)Proverbs or Adages of Erasmus (1545)Related Subjects
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), Dutch humanist. Praise of Folly, ch. 64 (1509).
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