"Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony."
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John Lyly, Euphues, Letters to a Young Gentleman in Naples named Alcius.
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