We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
~ Mark Twain
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We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
~ Mark Twain
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There’s a pleasure in being told what we already know, in a way we’re already used to. That’s why so much human writing and storytelling does exactly that. We go to a Hollywood movie or pick up a romantasy novel or attend a Sunday sermon knowing what to expect, and our expectations are almost always met.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
~ Charles Dickens
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
~ Albert Camus
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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