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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
Willa Cather
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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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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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