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«In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.»
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
Chiefs, infancy, institutions, societies
«In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood»
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
infancy, Messiah, pleads, The Messiah
«I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.»
«Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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Heaven
| Keywords:
About us, infancy, prison house, shades of, The Prison