Quotes with avocation

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• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

  Nelson Algren
  American writer (1909 - 1981)
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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?

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• schoolmaster
• essentially
• intelligent
• engaging
• imagine
• puerile

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