Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Citations
Harris, Sydney J. Pieces of Eight. Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
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Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.
