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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.