"Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots."

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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

Eleanor Farjeon

#Children Quotes #Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.”
“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”
“I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.”
“My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.”
“In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.”
“Softwareâˆ’related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.”
“Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will”
“My mother insisted that her children read.”

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