"When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him."

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Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.5

Thomas Love Peacock

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“I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.”
“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.”
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.”
“I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.”
“Drama is something Im good at, I guess.”
“You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.”
“When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.”

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