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ON LEARNING

My object in living is to unite/My avocation and my vocation/As my two eyes make one in sight.

Robert Frost, poet

Seeing much, suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke, philosopher

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