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Marilyn Hacker Quotes: As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
         

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.


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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
         



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