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«Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
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amuse, attainment, a priori, cant, canted, canting, cants, educating, flax, identification, magical, novels, princess, princesses, right and wrong, sense of right and wrong, systems, tales, The Cant, younger
«If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!»
«And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.»
«A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.»
«Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.»
«But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.»
«In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Religion
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flax, The Sugar, white paper, white tie, wool, wrapped
«Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
flax, gaming
«And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.»
«A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.»
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