There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then les…

Samuel Johnson
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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)
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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)

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