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Jai Ganesh

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Children Quotes - VIII

Children Quotes - VIII

1. A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. - Florence Nightingale

2. Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. - William Blake

4. Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. - Ban Ki-moon

5. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. - Ludwig van Beethoven

6. There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. - Woodrow Wilson

7. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell

8. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. - Thomas Jefferson.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.