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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

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Everybody can write; even among professional writers the percentage of those who can write is as high as 12.37. Everybody can write but only a few people can read and that makes the job a shade more difficult.

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According to Victorian novels these girls ought to be desperately unhappy; but they do not read Victorian novels and they are quite content.

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