Samuel Johnson: He that voluntarily continues ignorant, is guilty of all the crimes which…
He that voluntarily continues ignorant, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces: as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks.
In today’s wordsWhoever chooses to stay ignorant is guilty of all the crimes ignorance produces, just as someone who puts out a lighthouse's lamps is responsible for the shipwrecks.
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