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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Adams · The Education of Henry Adams, chapter 20, “Failure (1871)” · 1907 · Writer

A teacher's influence passes from student to student and generation to generation, so no one can say where it ends.

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About Henry Adams

Henry Adams was the grandson and great-grandson of U.S. presidents. He taught history at Harvard in the 1870s and wrote a celebrated history of the Jefferson and Madison administrations. His autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, written in the third person, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919.