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“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

Years Littles Two House Names Four Mouths Rivers Miles Village Four Years Grandfather

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

People Thinking Needs Mind Littles Two Helping Kids School Three Hours Teaching Chairs Village Little Kid Athens Niger

Author:Christine Lagarde

“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.”

People Way Littles Made Character Home Simple Towns Accidents Characteristics Village Cartoon Eccentric Puppets Home Town

Author:William Jackson

“The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.”

Should Heart Littles Said Two Grows Support Example Capable Surprise Careful These Days Each Day Feminine Village Surprise Me Two Hearts

Book:Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)

Source: Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)

“Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.”

Wells Littles Persons Known Teacher Students India Enlightened Village Well Known Tibet Himalayas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.”

People Men World Littles Enough Cities Class Towns Every Man Minorities Village Great Cities Little Towns Small Villages

Book:The Celtic Twilight

Source: The Celtic Twilight

“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”