“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.”
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Arnold Hunt, curator at the British Library, says King George never kept a diary http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11703583.
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“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

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1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)