"A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first."

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Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Children Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”
“Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.”
“Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Hereâ€™s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: â€˜(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.â€™”
“I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.”
“Follow your honest convictions and be strong.”
“The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.”

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