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I learned well because I never forgot it. And I learned. Did I not?
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“I learned well because I never forgot it. And I learned. Did I not?”

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Lost Prince
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1915
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Fictional character · Marco Loristan
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Meaning of “I learned well because I never forgot it.…”

Marco looks back on deliberate training and judges himself by whether he actually learned and retained what repeated instruction required.

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The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Marco says this while explaining that his father had long been preparing him for responsibility within the fictional plot.

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Marco speaks while explaining the training his father gave him.

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