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Learn (1 syl.)

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Live and learn.

Cato, the censor, was an old man when he taught himself Greek.

Michael Angelo, at seventy years of age, said, “I am still learning.”

John Kemble wrote out Hamlet thirty times, and said, on quitting the stage, “I am now beginning to understand my art.”

Mrs. Siddons, after she left the stage, was found studying Lady Macbeth, and said, “I am amazed to discover some new points in the character which I never found out while acting it.”

Milton, in his blindness, when past fifty, sat down to complete his Paradise Lost.

Scott, at fifty-five, took up his pen to redeem an enormous liability.

Richardson was above fifty when he published his first novel, Pamʹela.

Benjamin West was sixty-four when he commenced his series of paintings, one of which is Christ Healing the Sick.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Leaf
Leaf. (Anglo-Saxon leāf.)
League
Leak Out (To)
Leal
Leander
Leaning Tower
Leap Year
Leap in the Dark (A)
Lear (King)
Learn
Learn by Heart (To)
Learned
Least Said the soonest Mended (The) or The Less Said
Leather
Leather or Prunella
Leathering
Leatherstocking (Natty)
Leave in the Lurch (To)
Leave out in the Cold (To)
Leave some for Manners

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