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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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The Wit of the Epigrammatists

Jowett

The waggish collegians at Oxford aimed their pleasantries right and left at the dons of Balliol. A well-remembered hit at Dr. Jowett was:

My name it is Benjamin Jowett,
  I’m Master of Balliol College;
Whatever is knowledge I know it,
  And what I don’t know isn’t knowledge.

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