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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time»
Author: Edwin P. Whipple
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
erected, erecting, erects, Great Sea, lighthouse, lighthouses, the Great Sea, The Lighthouse
«Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected»
Author: Marilyn French
(Writer)
| About:
Inferiority
| Keywords:
demonstrate, erected, grounds, humanness, inferiority, lists, Lists of
«Character is the firm foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.»
Author: R. C. Samsel
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
build, building, built, erected, erecting, erects, firm, foundation, foundation stone, lasting, reputation, stone, The Firm, weak, worthy
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appal, appropriation, appropriations, bacilli, bacillus, cockroach, Cockroaches, detention, disagreeable, disagreeable person, domestic, edifices, erected, flea, habitation, Hardy, hollow, house of detention, ingeniously, microbe, microbes, mortgage, mosquito, Mosquitoes, offenders, pestilent, service station, steeple, steeples, The Station, unclean, variously
