It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. - William Cobbett

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William Cobbett: "It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense."

William Cobbett's Quotations

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Attaching	Devoted	Frivolous	Habit
Human	Importance	Instead	Learning
Life	Long	Mind	Mischief
Necessarily	Real	Rendered	Sense
Small	Sound	Superficial	Things
Words	Years

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