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He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
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