"In all the twelve years I was..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
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“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.”
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
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“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
“Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.”
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.”