# Quote — Willa Cather, The Professor's House

> His misfortune was that he loved youth — he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardour could command him. It hadn't worn out with years, this responsiveness, any more than the magnetic currents wear out; it had nothing to do with Time.

- Author: [Willa Cather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather.md)
- Book: [The Professor's House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house.md)
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> To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.

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> Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

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> A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

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