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The Teacher

CHAPTER IV
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There is a horrid sensation created by their ugly forms that makes me wish them all to Jericho.

The butterfly's wings are pretty, but he is dreadful ugly.

The is no affectation in this, for my pride will not permit me to show this prejudice to any great degree when I can help it.

I do not fear the little wretches, but I do hate them.
ANTI-SPIDER-SPARER." "This is not expressed very well; the phrases '_to Jericho ?_' and '_dreadful ugly_' are vulgar, and not in good taste.

Such a dislike, too, is more commonly called an antipathy than a prejudice, though perhaps it comes under the general head of prejudices." "How may we overcome prejudice?
I think that when we are prejudiced against a person, it is the hardest thing in the world to overcome it." A prejudice is usually founded on some unpleasant association connected with the subject of it.


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