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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.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. II
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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