Professor Speaks

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“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth; he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)