Quotes with schoolmaster

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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
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
  

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

  Antiphanes
  Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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• The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

  Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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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
• wonderingly
• essentially
• intelligent
• avocation
• priests

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