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Quote by Minna Antrim

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

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Minna Antrim, an American writer born on October 13, 1861, and died in 1950. Her works spanned across novels, poetry, and drama, and she is known for her unique literary style and profound portrayal of female characters. more

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.”

I Can Tree Relax Only Time

Author:Tom Felton

“That man is idle who can do something better.”

Men Can Do Laziness Idle Idleness Something Better Can Do Something

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything intercepts us from ourselves.”

Intervention Alienation

Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.”

Ifs History Broken Role Models Idols Superstitions Boast Transfers Idolatry Emancipation

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.”

People Men Mind Kind Different Quality Lenses

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.”

Thinking Three Stuff Speed Physics Clever Velocity Best Science

Author:Tom Felton

“The walking of Man is falling forwards.”

Men Fall Progress Walking

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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