“Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.”
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“It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.”
― Three Act Tragedy
― Three Act Tragedy
“An education for economic productivity and political utility alone is an education for slaves, but an education for finding, collecting, and communicating reality is an education for free people, people free to know what is so.”
― The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
― The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
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