"[T]he biggest thing, which readers may find hard to swallow given my entire career has been based on ridiculing other…"

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"In my current school the teachers seem happy and have no plans to quit. Many have taught there for 20 or 30 years and…"

"On returning, she got off the 214 bus outside our house, and spotted a familiar pram being pushed up the front steps.…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"