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«Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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Education
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daughter, doctor, engine, farm, farms, mineworker, peasant, Personal development, President of, Son, Son of, The Farm, the President, workers
«OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Obsessions
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«He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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happiest, king, peasant
«All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.»
«A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open, before a roast duck will fly in»
«Even in Hell the peasant will have to serve the landlord, for, while the landlord is boiling in a cauldron the peasant will have to put wood under it»
Author: Russian Proverb
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boiling, cauldron, landlord, Landlords, peasant, The Landlord, under it, wood