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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.