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• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
• No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
• I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. — Henry David Thoreau
• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. — Walter Scott
• The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.' — Adoniram Judson
• The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the… — Edward Alsworth Ross
• The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G. Wells
• Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Homer
• A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George
• The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,… — Errico Malatesta
• There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. — Sarah Josepha Hale

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