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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
T. H. White
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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Terence Hanbury White
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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