Famous quotes containing the words social and/or orders:
“Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a labourers fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.”
—Macmillans Magazine (London, September 1871)
“He was thoughtful and gravebut the orders he gave
Were enough to bewilder a crew.
When he cried Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!
What on earth was the helmsman to do?”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
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