"A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim."

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Robert Baden-Powell

#Wisdom Quotes #Boys Quotes #Suggestions Quotes

“A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.”
“The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media
“Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.”
“Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.”
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”
“For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.”

Source : "De Re Rustica". I, 1,
“love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.”
“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”

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