An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
In plain words
Anything you learn keeps paying you back forever.
Where these words come from
- 37% sureLots of sources credit Benjamin Franklin with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- widely attributed, no primary source found — absent from Franklin's Wikiquote page entirely, and Bartleby's reference catalog marks it "unverified"
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A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.Chinese proverbThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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