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Instructive Advice on Dropping Out at Fourteen
A reader shares worry about leaving school at 14 after her father's death. The column reassures that lack of formal schooling is not shameful and cites Benjamin Franklin Shakespeare and Emerson to support self improvement. It advises not to announce the past to friends and to value personal character over education.
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