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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
         

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.


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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
         



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