William Whitehead: Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. — William Whitehead

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

William Whitehead

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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, b — Attributed to Lord Brougham.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows. — Jonathan Swift

By education most have been misled. — John Dryden

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. — Democritus

Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd'hui aimerait à vivre s' — Voltaire

Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next. — L. Frank Baum

Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial — Edward Young

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. — J.K. Rowling

As the stranger, far distant in foreign climes, draws towards home, so the soul, — Rumi