14 July The literary calendar
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
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- Eleanor Anne Porden: Maria Flaxman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Christopher Priest: Éric Messel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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