• The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic 1880-1956
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1. schoolmaster
2. essentially
3. intelligent
4. avocation
5. puerile

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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation? by : Henry Louis Mencken

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