Contempt for Classics

“A foolish decrier of classical literature once said to Lord Sherbrooke, ‘I have the greatest contempt for Greek and Latin.’ And the former replied, ‘Not, I should think, the contempt which is bred by familiarity.'”

-Selby Henry, Good Stories from Oxford and Cambridge, p.101 (London, 1931)

 

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