English/places

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“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parents.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)