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As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

William Alexander Percy

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William Alexander Percy
Age: 56 †
Born: 1885
Born: May 14
Died: 1942
Died: January 21
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