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Comment by greenhearth

3 months ago

I think they meant "fount" of wisdom

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cjs_ac  3 months ago

'Font' and 'fount' are synonyms, although they tend to be used in different contexts nowadays. Even in the sense of a font for setting text, there are older works that discuss 'founts of type'.

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