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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Children, Soul

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Love, Country, Else

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Age, Tongue, Temper

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Age, Tongue, Temper

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Tongue, Constant, Edge

The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Wendell Phillips

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Conrad Veidt

Wish, Study, Become

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.
Richard Griffiths

Life, Career, Happen

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
Leon Foucault

Person, Him, Through

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