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Updated: June 18, 2025

The speaker ceased, for his hearer was nodding his head with sceptical impatience. "Yass," said the woodman, "yass; but look, Bonaventure. Di'n' you said one time, 'Knowledge is power'?" "Yes, truly; and it is." "But what use knowledge be power if goin' give ev't'in' away?"

George Washington Cable - Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana