By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense ad…

Winston Churchill
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By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat. ✨ My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)
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