Moses Hadas quotes
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“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.”
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“I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.”
-- Moses Hadas -
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“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.”
-- Moses Hadas
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
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“Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.”
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”
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