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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

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Raymond Williams
Age: 66 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 31
Died: 1988
Died: January 26
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