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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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