"My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest."

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Source : "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

Allison Pearson

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Lefties Quotes

“Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.”
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”
“My blessing is I'm blessed with good health. If I weren't feeling good or if I didn't have the energy, then it's not that much fun. But this way, you can get away with murder because you're going to be 90 in January.”
“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.”
“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”
“Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation.”

Source : Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.96, Black House Publishing Ltd
“Our only hope is to control the...”
“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

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