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WRITERS > journalist, author > William Cobbett
It is no...
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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being.
Source: To Mr. Benbow, in Political Register (London, 29 Nov. 1817; repr. in The Opinions of William Cobbett, ch. 16, ed. by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole, 1944).
-- William Cobbett, (Mar 19 1762-1835), English journalist, author; He wrote Rural Rides, 1860 pro-British pamphlets while in the U.S.