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Letter "E" » Eton
«The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Keywords:
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class feeling,
cowardly,
deduce,
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disappointments,
dominate,
Eton,
glories,
ruling,
ruling class,
school system,
self-conscious,
sentimental,
theory of,
The Ruling Class,
undergone
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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Keywords:
abbey,
absent,
American Army,
American elder,
American Life,
American literature,
aristocracies,
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ascot,
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Eton,
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Great Court,
Great Houses,
harrow,
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ivied,
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museums,
Norman,
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Old Court,
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ruins,
schools,
sovereign,
sporting,
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The Harrow,
universities