“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason
1790s
Source: The Age of Reason
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.
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