Academe, n.: An ancient school where morali
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.
And mothers are their daughters' role model, thei
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And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds lik
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Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a co
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morali
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out th
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which
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Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
Children have more need of models than of critics
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Children have more need of models than of critics.
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, a
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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
Modesty: The art of encouraging people to f
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Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.
Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern soci
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Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.
With people of only moderate ability modesty is m
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
It is well to know something of the manners of va
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It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sic
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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