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«There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.»
«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
«One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.»
Author: Margaret Mead | About: Needs | Keywords: come home, Coming Home, oldest
«Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds»
«The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.»
«The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.»
«Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.»
«The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: oldest
«The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.»
«The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,Shall never see so much, nor live so long.»

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