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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.Gilbert Highet
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Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)Gilbert Highet
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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.Gilbert Highet
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A good teacher is a determined person.Gilbert Highet
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.Gilbert Highet
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?Gilbert Highet