One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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- 82% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Letter to Theo van Gogh, Cuesmes, Belgium, July 1880 — Wikiquote Sourced entry, discussing reading Shakespeare.
- letter to Theo van Gogh
- 1880 · Cuesmes, Belgium · on reading Shakespeare
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