A Quote by James Russell Lowell
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.
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A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
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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.
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