"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."

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Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

William Kingdon Clifford

#Race Quotes #Alive Quotes #Village Quotes

“... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
“I dont think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.”
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”
“I find all this money a considerable burden.”
“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
“What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.”
“I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.”

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