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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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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
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
— Henry Adams
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
— Walter Scott
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The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
— Adoniram Judson
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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
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The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
— H.G. Wells
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
— Homer
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A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
— Henry George
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The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,…
— Errico Malatesta
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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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