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"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

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