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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Roger Ascham

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Roger Ascham
Age: 53 †
Born: 1515
Born: January 1
Died: 1568
Died: December 30
Writer
Kirby Wiske
North Yorkshire
Reading
Manslaughter
Read
Feigned
Father
Chivalry
Ends
Wherein
Book
Fathers
Nothing
None
Men
Time
Books

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