Franz Schubert, quoted in Maurice J.E. Brown, Schubert: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo, 1988), p. 233:
“I would rather eat dry bread than teach.”
Ralph E. Hone, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1979), p. 24:
One of her own students had overheard her saying: “I would rather sweep the streets than teach children!”
Right?
Blithe Spirit 
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