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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I’m the reporter.