“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
Gail Godwin (1937) Novelist, short story writer
“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”
Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1
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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888Related quotes
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