Travel Provided Many Interesting Experiences, But Perhaps The Most Useful Lesson I Learned Was That I Really Had No Proficiency For Learning The Thousands Of Characters Of The Written Chinese Language. - SearchQuotes

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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

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