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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While read more
The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in read more
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he read more
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
