Dickens

Friday  just before lunchtime  Mystie

I’m listening to Hard Times on tape. I couldn’t pass this quote up:

He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council’s Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathematics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek. He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, Mr. M’Choakumchild. If he had only leamt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!

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