The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers. (Mark Twain)

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers.

Mark Twain

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