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1785–1869 France

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a deaf teacher and co-founder, with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, of the first school for the deaf in North America, the Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (now the American School for the Deaf), the oldest existing school for the deaf in North America.

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Science is a most useful thing for us all. It is one of the most useful ornaments of man. There is no dress which embellishes the body more than science does the mind.

Every decent man, and every real gentleman in particular, ought to apply himself, above all things, to the study of his native language, so as to express his ideas with ease and gracefulness.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurent Clerc (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.