PLAYING SHOULD BE FUN! In our great eagerness to teach our children we studiously look for "educational" toys, games with built-in... lessons, books with a "message." Often these "tools" are less interesting and stimulating than the child's natural curiosity and playfulness. Play is by its very nature educational. And it should be pleasurable. When the fun goes out of play, most often so does the learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, ...and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than ...your own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches, full of Variety and Glow?--How could I possibly join them on to<...br />the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cheering sound of "Dinner is upon the table," dissolved his reverie.... Mr. Wilkes placed himself next to Dr. Johnson, and beh...aved to him with so much attention and politeness, that he gained upon him insensibly.... Mr. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. "Pray give me leave, Sir:MIt is better here--A little of the brown--Some fat, Sir--A little of the stuffing--Some gravy--Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter--Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange;Mor the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,... For even in Error sure no Danger is When joyn'd with so much Piety as His.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them... dead to the quality of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the st...ate, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »