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Letter "S" » schoolmasters
«Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff»
Author: Harold Nicolson
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Schools
| Keywords:
apt, flatulence, forty-nine, inclined, puff, puffed, puffing, puffs, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, swallow
«Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
excellent, Fields, lakes, Lake of, mountain, rivers, schoolmasters, the Mountain, The Sea, woods
«I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
behaviour, gentlemen, indecent, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, send down, sir, The Gentlemen
«An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
afterwards, critics, schoolmaster, schoolmasters
«Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
discerning, grammar, liquor, schoolmasters
«I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
priest, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, support, taxed
«Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ballet dancer, Civil List, civil servant, civil servants, civil service, common soldier, constable, constables, dancers, embryo, Embryos, Gothic, in embryo, schoolmasters, services, slumber, steeple, steeples, taxation
«I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
schoolboys, schoolmaster, schoolmasters
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
account, advocate, advocated, advocating, after all, ears, First to, Genesis, Give Me Liberty, human ear, sacred, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, serpent, thank, The Advocate, whisper
«Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy»
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