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Famous quotes containing the words elder, family and/or tree:

    “Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”
    —Pliny The Elder (23–79)

    “O how terrible it must be for a young man—
    seated before a family and the family thinking
    We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
    After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”
    —Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

    “Cynicism is the humour of hatred.”
    —Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)