Excerpt from The Retired Lieutenant, Vol. 1 of 2: And the Battle of Loncarty Poems The 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.