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«In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.»
«Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.»
Author: Antonio Porchia | Keywords: eternal rest, infancy
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
«In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood»
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
«In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Literature, Society | Keywords: infancy
«Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise»
«Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.»
«I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.»
«Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy»

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