"Education is the process of selling someone on books."

-- Douglas Wilson

#Educational Quotes #Book Quotes #Selling Quotes

“Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.”
“There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.21
“St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.”
“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2010). “The Silver Door”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.
“We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.”
“Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young,”
“The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.211
“I'm full of dust and guitars.”

Source : Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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