Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Men look on knowledge which they learnor might learnfrom others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbors palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
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