All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.Muriel Spark
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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