“Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, — forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”

— Gilbert Highet

The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)

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