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embryonic. From the very beginning we start to learnabout things that are of interest and will stand us in goodstead as we progress.
We crawl before we walk, we attend grade schoolbefore high school, high school before college, gothrough "basic training" on entering the Army, and
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apprenticeship before the trade is learned, and we mustbe born before we can die. There is no short cut to any-thing. Life must be lived and stamps must be collectedto bring full enjoyment.
Many collectors, however erudite, never entirely giveup general collecting.
However, almost everyone looks forward to complet-ing a project and if our goal is a collection of the entire