Monday, February 20, 2023
Charity Toward Fellow-Blunderers
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 26.4 (1905) 486-491 (at 490):
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In the advertisement to the second edition of Lewis's Translation of Juvenal I read that 'George Long somewhere says that the greatest scholar in Europe will occasionally be guilty of mistakes, which a schoolboy will be able to point out'. This is a saying of great comfort to a primesautier nature such as mine is, and when I think of the additions I myself have made to what Flaubert calls 'Le dossier de la bêtise humaine' I overflow with charity toward all my fellow-blunderers.
