Tfw when you've been working 80 hour weeks turning a crank in a factory since you were 6 and you come home to practice fencing every night until you're finally skilled enough to challenge your boss to a duel and he laughs in your face and tells you to get back to turning the crank.

Not even the rich aristocrat dipshits all learned it. There's plenty of stories of someone getting in over their head and suddenly needing to cram in fencing lessons. And by the late 1700's, it was more common to duel with pistols, because nobody had time to learn that shit.