"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

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Source : Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'

Horace Walpole

#School Quotes #Boys Quotes #Power Quotes

“I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.”
“Change everything except your wife and kids”
“There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.”
“We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.”
“So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.”
“The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”

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