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SOME FAMOUS DUNCES

... stupid boy that little could be made of. and none of them imagined that he would rise in after-life above mediocrity. Charles Darwin was another dull boy at school, and so was Henry Ward Beecher, who could never learn the Shorter Catechism. Robert Chambers ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1890
Newspaper: Brechin Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
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