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Page 436 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate A Short History of England |
| Author | Edward Potts Cheyney |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1908 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 781 pages |
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