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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#generation #instructs #man #more #nobler

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.


James F. Cooper


#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.


Michael Foot


#elder #hope #intervening #passed #period

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.


Ron Fournier


#candidates #consultants #dark #democrats #hear

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!


Antonia Fraser


#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.


Stephen Gardiner


#emerges #georgian #hardly #most #remarkable

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.


David Garrick


#course #hail #i #others #rising

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.


Ina Garten


#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.


Anne Lamott


#being #book #book tour #brother #crash

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.


John Langdon


#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language






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