In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
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I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children they came from thence great lubbers always learning, and little profiting learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.Roger Ascham
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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