“I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.” PersonsSufferingBoysFateOpponentsDefeatedHumiliateLong Walk To FreedomCruel Fate Book:Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Source: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsLooksLittlesBookHardUsedGirlEducationBoysHistoryFateTroubleVolumeTormentFillingLittle BoysBoy And Girl Book:Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes Source: Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
“Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.” YearsMadeEducationBoysFateStreetsYears AgoTradeFairyRomeTwelveTrafficDelightfulMockFilthy Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed