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to have impaired our knowledge of Latin
'Reform' seems not only to have impaired our knowledge of Latin, but to have diminished our sense of the ridiculous—a most dolorous result.
— from Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

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