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«The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.»
«Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Travel
| Keywords:
elder, sort, travel, younger
«What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.»
«You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Brothers
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dearly, Dearly Beloved, elder, elder brother
«The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
constraint, constraints, elder, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, filthy, lords, lucre, Old Glory, oversight, partaker, sufferings
«The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.»
«Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.»
«WOMAN, n.An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind. The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be taught not to talk. --Balthasar Pober»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
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