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Beware of the atmosphere of the classics. It is pernicious indeed; and you need much of the south wind breathing over the Scriptures to counteract it. True, we ought to know them; but only as chemists handle poisons — to discover their qualities, not to infect their blood with them.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne — Memoir and Remains (Andrew A. Bonar, ed., 1844)

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Memoir and Remains (Andrew A. Bonar, ed., 1844)
Primary text - Memoir, letter to a student, p. 27–28
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