"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."

-- John Keegan

#Gentleman Quotes #Natural Quotes #Wellington Quotes

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
“All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.”
“Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.”
“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”

Source : "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.
“I love to work. I love to have complexity.”
“No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”

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