"A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor."

-- George William Curtis

#Ignorance Quotes #Tree Quotes #Lost Quotes

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
“Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."”
“The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.”
“I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.”
“We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.”
“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
“We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.”
“He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.”

Source : 1834 Letter to Lady Grey,19 Nov.

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