“The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.”

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 376.

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American minister 1822–1909

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