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'Tis but a single murder. -- Lillo: Fatal Curiosity.
It was in a melancholy and thoughtful mood that I rode away from the parsonage. Numerous and hearty were the maledictions I bestowed upon a system of education which, while it was so ineffective with the many, was so pernicious to the few. Miserable delusion (thought I), that encourages the ruin of health and the perversion of intellect by studies that are as unprofitable to the world as they are destructive to the possessor -- that incapacitate him for public, and unfit him for private life -- and that, while they expose him to the ridicule of strangers, render him the victim of his wife, and the prey of his domestic.