"Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture."

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Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406

Hinton Rowan Helper

#Ignorance Quotes #Parent Quotes #Vices Quotes

“I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.”
“Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.”
“I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
“While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.”
“Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day. Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day. What's happened?”
“Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.”
“Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.11
“I really want a pet, and I really love animals.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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