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" The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. "

Nelson Mandela

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" The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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