"It is no small mischief to a boy,……" — William Cobbett

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the… - William Cobbett

"It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense."

— William Cobbett

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