It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late…

George Orwell
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. ✨ George Orwell (1974). Burmese Days, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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