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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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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

John Alexander Smith

John Alexander Smith

Born: April 21, 1863
Died: December 19, 1939 (aged 76)
Known for:
  1. Faces in the Mirror
  2. Change: The Coming of Light
  3. Complications of Minor Surgery

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