“A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”
Of his headmaster at Charterhouse, Dr. Russell; p. 31.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)
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Henry George Liddell 4
Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean 1811–1898Related quotes
Quoted in The Observer [London] (6 December 1964).
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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 16 (p. 188)
“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”
Source: The Serpent's Tale
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
Aphorism 44
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
Ramachandra Rao, whom Shivaji affectionately used to call Kaddi (stick) Ramu because he was as thin as a rod.
You can see God in him at times (22 December 1999)
To the Right Reverend J. Bouvier, Bishop of Le Mans, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 1850-07-10.
Context: We have gone out several times this summer to gather simples and linden blossoms, etc. In each excursion we discover something marvelous, beautiful, and useful in the magnificent forests of Indiana. At each step we can admire the grandeur, the power, the goodness of God. How bountifully He provides for all our wants -- I would even say for our pleasures! I love our woods and solitude very much; …