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E.F. Benson on the remarkable fact that, for hundreds of years, if you could win a King's Scholarship to Eton as a teenager, you could spend the rest of your life as a Bachelor Fellow of King's, Cambridge, devoted to either scholarship or "the gentle art of doing nothing at all". pic.twitter.com/ZhlhrZVvUB

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