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You know, you sound a very educated man for a barbarian,” said Rincewind.
“Oh, dear me, I didn’t start out a barbarian. I used to be a school teacher. That’s why they call me Teach.”
"What did you teach?”
"Geography. And I was very interested in Auriental* studies. But I decided to give it up and make a living by the sword.”
"After being a teacher all your life?”
"It did mean a change of perspective, yes.”
“But … well … surely … the privation, the terrible hazards, the daily risk of death…”
Mr. Saveloy brightened up. “Oh, you’ve been a teacher, have you?
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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