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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Knowledge...

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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