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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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Teaching
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Ways
Matter
Enlarges
Way
Sorts
People
Besides
Subject

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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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