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A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

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And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

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You have not had thirty years' experience…You have had one year's experience 30 times.

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The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.

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J. L. Carr

J. L. Carr

Born: May 20, 1912
Died: February 26, 1994 (aged 81)
Bio: Joseph Lloyd Carr, who called himself "Jim" or even "James", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric.
Known for:
  1. A Month in the Country (1980)
  2. The Battle of Pollocks Crossing (1985)
  3. A Day in Summer (1963)
  4. What Hetty Did (1988)

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