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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. -- Antiphanes
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. -- Thomas Paine
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. -- Randall Terry
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. -- Walter Bagehot
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. -- Henry Adams
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. -- Horace
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. -- John Burns
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. -- Erich Maria Remarque
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. -- Graham Chapman
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass. -- H. L. Mencken
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. -- H. G. Wells
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. -- Walter Scott
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. -- Henry George
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.' -- Adoniram Judson
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers. -- James Russell Lowell
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. -- Walter Scott
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff -- Harold Nicolson
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. -- Henry David Thoreau
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. -- E. V. Lucas
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. -- Horace
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. -- Henry Sidgwick
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. -- Thomas Carlyle
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. -- H. L. Mencken
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life. -- John Calvin
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. -- Edward Everett
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. -- H. G. Wells
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. -- Phillis Wheatley
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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