Benjamin Brewster

Yale College class of 1882 · essayist, The Yale Literary Magazine

Almost nothing is known about him beyond the byline. Quote Investigator identifies the author of the February 1882 essay “Theory and Practice” as a Benjamin Brewster of the Yale class of 1882 — a student writing for his college literary magazine. Wikiquote files the quotation under the Standard Oil financier of the same name while cautioning that the student essayist was almost certainly a different Benjamin Brewster, so the line should not be pinned to the industrialist.

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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is”

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