Brewer's: Royal Road to Learning

Euclid, having opened a school of mathematics at Alexandria, was asked by King Ptolemy whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner. “Sir,” said the geometrician, “there is no royal road to learning.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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