“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.” YearsChildrenMadeAmericaLawYoungThreeWorkAnimalClassCenturyThousandLaborRateCrueltyOppressionFranceIndifferenceThirtyEnlightenedNeglectAbandonedSixtyNineteenth CenturyParentalAnimal CrueltyChild LaborEnglish Law Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.” YearsMy OwnCenturyAgingThirtyQuartersMy Own LifeThirty YearsQuarter Of A Century Author:Philip Larkin
“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.” MenFacesDoorsCenturyOppositesIntelligentVicesNobleNosesGenerousThirtyBottlesPrudentCourteousCorkAffable Author:Cyrano de Bergerac
“When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?” PiecesCenturyFortuneRichesThirtySilverQuartersGlobesShamefulJudas Author:Sophie Swetchine