Quotation by Mark Twain

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. 1870. The regular editor, in "How I Edited an Agricultural Newspaper," pp. 415-16, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992).
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