"Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time."

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J. A. Spender

#Children Quotes #Watches Quotes

“The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24
“A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.”
“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”
“The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.”
“I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.”
“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”
“Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.”
“Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.”

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