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I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Joshua Chamberlain

Joshua L. Chamberlain, President of Bowdoin College

Submitted by David Larsson on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 14:35

So now I say this is a good age, and we need not quarrel with it. We must understand it, if we can. At least we must do our work in it.

— Joshua L. Chamberlain, President of Bowdoin College

"The New Education," President Chamberlain's Inaugural Address, 1872

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Joshua Chamberlain

Joshua L. Chamberlain, President of Bowdoin College

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