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Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life – save only this – that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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John Alexander Smith
Born:
April 21, 1863
Died:
December 19, 1939
(aged 76)
Known for:
Faces in the Mirror
Change: The Coming of Light
Complications of Minor Surgery
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