Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
"George Norman Douglas" was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind (novel)/South Wind. His travel books such as his 1915 Old Calabria were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Norman Douglas on Wikipedia.How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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