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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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