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“The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.”
Source : theocritus “idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics”, Lulu.com
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“It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society”, p.342
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“Not all who drink energy drinks are douches, but all douches drink energy drinks.”
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“To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back”
Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.203
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“Music is the softest cushion in the world.”
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“I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as women in other parts of the world. But the continuum is the same. The pressures on women to fit into a certain image of a good Muslim girl is the same. The controls and rules are the same, but there are different degrees of it. So, in America, a father will threaten a daughter that he will disown her if she marries the American boyfriend and in Pakistan she faces acid thrown on her face. The power dynamic is the same, it just expresses itself differently.”
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“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”
Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.
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“Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship”
Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
