"Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education."

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Source : Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.138, SUNY Press

Sophie von La Roche

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“Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.”
“I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.”
“Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning”
“One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.”
“the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.”
“Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.”

Source : Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey H. Gitomer (2007). “Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success”, Ft Press
“I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.”
“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”

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