"I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing."

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Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.254

Roger Ascham

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“First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.”
“People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.”

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“There are only two types of people in this world - the people who do the DOING, and the people who have stuff done to them.”
“Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.”
“I love karaoke; you have to wail when you do karaoke.”

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“I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.”

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“The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.”

Source : "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.
“I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.”

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