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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#friendship #highest #like #used

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#love #makes #stronger #time #weaker

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#five #friends #gives #go #like

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#always #bedrooms #being #being silly #bronx

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#colour #colours #constituent #destroyed #each

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ↗

— Eric Liu

#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#besides #destroyed #friends #here #man

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#always #candor #friends #incredulity #own

Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#best #friends #i #know #lead