Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, t…

Lord Chesterfield
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Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them. ✨ Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son. Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.
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