A Quote by H. L. Mencken
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
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The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.
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A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass
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