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The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)

CHAPTER X
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Be not over solicitous about education.

It may be able to do much, but it does not do so much as is expected from it.

It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
George IV.

and the Duke of York were educated quite like English boys, by English schoolmasters, and in the manner and upon the system of English schools.

The consequence was that, whatever were their faults, they were quite Englishmen.


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