What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? -Harriet Martineau

 

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?


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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau