She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could…

Flannery O'Connor
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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1971). The Complete Stories, p.361, Macmillan
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