[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay. (Peter Guthrie Tait)

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay.

Peter Guthrie Tait

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