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Letter "H" » His father
«His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.»
«By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.»
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Historian)
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About:
Knowledge,
Language,
Learning
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Keywords:
Alexander,
Alexander the Great,
Aristotle,
Charles,
Charles M,
Charles V,
His father,
indebted,
languages,
Philip,
valued
«He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.»
«For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man's enemies are the members of his own household»
«For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; / And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.»
«For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: / But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.»
«For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? / For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
according,
angels,
come in,
exchange,
Fathers and Sons,
give in,
His father,
profited,
Son,
Son of,
Son of man,
the Son
«By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man»
«He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.»