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"Abuse," he said, "is often of service: there is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence; his name, like a shittlecock [Transcriber's note: sic], must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground."— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes
John Hall, who entered the College in 1646, recommended "shittlecock" as fit for students -- "it requires a nimble arme with quick and waking eye."— St. John's College, Cambridge
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