For you have never taught me such thoughts, have you?
Quite the contrary.

And I cannot have learned it from Clubbe." He broke off with a laugh of relief, for he had perceived that Septimus Marvin's thoughts were already elsewhere.
"Perhaps you are right," he added, turning to Miriam.

"It may be that one should go to a republic in order to learn--once for all--that all men are not equal." "You say it with so much conviction," was the retort, "that you must have known it before." "But I do not know it.

I deny such knowledge.

Where could I have learned such a principle ?" He spread out his arms in emphatic denial.