They would not accept failure—but for reasons unrelated to a desire for fame or money. Those were of no real interest to them. They simply wanted to prove humans could build and safely fly planes. David suggests, though, one other reason for their success. They loved to read. They had grown up with books and were always reading. And they were reading the classics of literature and history. David suggests that this informal liberal arts education the brothers gave themselves, in both their youth and their adulthood, produced manned flight as much as did their self-taught engineering and
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