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Knowledge is hard to seek, and harder yet to adhere to. Knowledge is painful often; and yet when we know we are happy.

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“Knowledge is hard to seek, and harder yet to adhere to. Knowledge is painful often; and yet when we know we are happy.”

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Claude presents knowledge as difficult to obtain and live with, yet still capable of giving a kind of clarity or satisfaction once it is possessed.

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Amours de Voyage, Letter X, “Claude to Eustace,—from Rome,” Project Gutenberg #1393. Claude’s two sentences about knowledge appear in the fictional verse-letter sequence after he turns from Roman politics toward study. This is Clough’s fictional epistolary voice, not direct autobiography or an empirical claim about happiness.

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