George Saville quotes
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“The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.”
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“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”
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“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.”
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“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
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“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation