Wednesday, July 07, 2004
July 7, 2004
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.”
- La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680), French moralist and epigrammatist: “Maximes”, 1678.
“Don’t be too hard on parents. You may find yourself in their place.”
- Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1844 – 1969), English writer: “Elders and Betters”, 1944.
“Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.”
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), American novelist and poet.
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.”
- La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680), French moralist and epigrammatist: “Maximes”, 1678.
“Don’t be too hard on parents. You may find yourself in their place.”
- Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1844 – 1969), English writer: “Elders and Betters”, 1944.
“Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.”
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), American novelist and poet.
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