A bon mot of Quintilian on theory

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Si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.

[In case you [have to] divide them, application without theory is worth more than theory unaccompanied by application.]

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (fl. 35–100 C.E.), Institutio oratoria XII:6.4

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