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He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Source: Nightmare Abbey, Ch. 1
-- Thomas Love Peacock, (Oct 18 1785-1866), English novelist, poet; He satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot.

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