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For poor children school is idleness that leaves them less fit for hard labour
Drawn from what Bernard Mandeville said
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- Bernard Mandeville Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist (1670 to 1733)
Going to school, in comparison to working, is idleness, and the longer boys continue in this easy sort of life, the more unfit they will be when grown up for downright labour, both as to strength and inclination.
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↗The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714; 1806 edition)gutenberg.org
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