"To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find."

-- Charlotte Mason

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“For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel.”
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

Source : George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”
“I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.”
“If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.”

Source : Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.271, Courier Corporation
“It's a great day for TWA.”
“Nobodyâ€™s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.”
“Don't live life as a spectator.”
“People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"”

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