Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... ARISTOTLE . . . Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. He said also that children would be healthier if ...
... ARISTOTLE . . . Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. He said also that children would be healthier if ...
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... [Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated] : "As much as the living are to the dead." — ARISTOTLE Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. — GEORGE SAVILE HALIFAX ...
... [Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated] : "As much as the living are to the dead." — ARISTOTLE Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. — GEORGE SAVILE HALIFAX ...
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... ARISTOTLE, Politics POLITICS If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote politics, it was like making rules for a lunatic asylum, and if they have seemed to speak of it in the grand manner, it was because they knew that the lunatics for whom ...
... ARISTOTLE, Politics POLITICS If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote politics, it was like making rules for a lunatic asylum, and if they have seemed to speak of it in the grand manner, it was because they knew that the lunatics for whom ...
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |