In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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Huntington Smith (tr.), History of a Crime (1888), The Second Day, Chapter III, p. 187Victor Hugo
Variants: There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher/teacher. And an extinguisher: The priest/clergyman.
Victor Hugo
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.
Henry Adams
Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch.Kurt Donald Cobain
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Peter Stuyvesant
Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England
Add thus much more — That no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.King of England John
Hugo, Victor
Huizinga, Johan
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