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“Until he was fourteen, with one brief exception, he was homeschooled, which meant that he spent much more time with his parents, his live-in teachers, and the servants than with other children. On nine separate occasions, beginning when he was three, he accompanied his parents to Europe for extended stays, traveling on liners that were essentially huge floating luxury hotels for those in first class, with, as he put it in a letter to a boyhood friend written at sea, “a library, a barber shop, lots of baths, and lots of other things where you get quite lost.”35 Already a voracious reader, it is not just happenstance that Franklin put the library first.”
― Roger Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939