Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
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I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable… — Plato Copy Share Image
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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