When. I was a student working on the parks in the summer holidays, one year one of blokes entertained himself by giving all us students GBH of the ear'ole by telling us that he'd got by in life very well without wasting time going to colleges and getting all them degrees and whatnot. He, said he, tapping his temple, had common sense instead, wot he asserted was wot we did not 'ave.

Three months later I heard that he'd drunk himself to death.

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