Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.
First encountered this "it should help you to know a good man when you see him" in Barzun a long time ago and throughout the petty sniping between the BA and BS factions over the value of the humanities I've kept thinking of it.
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