"Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold."

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Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28

Henry Sambrooke Leigh

#Years Quotes #Giving Quotes #Age Quotes

“Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”
“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.”
“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.”
“Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.”
“If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.”
“I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.”
“You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.”
“Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", 1971.

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