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«Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.»
«Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery»
«Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: acres, Air In, paternal
«We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.»