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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
— Unknown Author
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys…
— George Bernard Shaw
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
— William Shakespeare
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us…
— George Herbert
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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy…
— William Butler Yeats
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Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments…
— Bertrand Russell
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We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --…
— Karl Marx
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A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
— Louis Nizer
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