"An oak is no respecter of persons."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Persons Quotes

“Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!”
“Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.”

Source : James A. Owen (2010). “Shadow Dragons”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
“The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said”
“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”
“At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view.”

Source : "Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science".

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