Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no …

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Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.293, Cambridge University Press
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