Excerpt from The Retired Lieutenant, Vol. 1 of 2: And the Battle of Loncarty PoemsThe diffusers themselves have, it is to be hoped, sufficient sense to know that knowledge does not always beget wisdom, they, doubtless, know that sense, without much knowledge, will enable a man to know knaves and impostors from honest men, while know ledge, without sense, may render a man who, had he remained ignorant, might have remained honest, both a knave and an impostor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.