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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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Clapham Common Ward
Sir Kingsley William Amis
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