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“Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation.

— Baltasar Gracián
Jesuit writer and philosopher
Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia, § 11 (Christopher Maurer trans.)
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