"If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better th...

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...
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