Latin Style

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“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.”
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