There is now 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. (Samuel Johnson)

There is now 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.

Samuel Johnson

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