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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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