These expressions we are all accustomed to use.

Do we live up to them?
Many a rich man, many a man in fine social position, has married a school-teacher; but I never heard it spoken of as a source of pride in the alliance until I went to despotic Russia.

Struve told me, as he would have told of any other honor which had been his, that his wife, as a girl, had taught school in St.Petersburg.And then Madame Struve joined in the conversation, and told me how much the subject of woman's education still held her interest.
"St.Petersburg is about the size of Philadelphia.

Struve said, 'There are thousands of women studying science in St.Petersburg.' How many thousand women do you suppose are studying science in the whole State of New York?
I doubt if there are five hundred.
"Then again, as to language.

It is rare, even among the common people, to meet one who speaks one language only.