Quote#Books & Reading
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a…
Quote byPeter Guthrie Tait · 1831–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: in an address to the University of Edinburgh graduates, as quoted by.
English (original)
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
— Peter Guthrie Tait
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