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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
“Teaching is no joke, sonny! I’m not talking of those who get out of it with a lot of eyewash: you’ll knock up against plenty of them in the course of your life, and get to know ’em. Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.”
—A Priest character
in The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (1937), translated by Pamela Morris
— Education — Commonplaces #181 — Sept/Oct 2023 —
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