Famous quotes containing the words thumb, instruction and/or set:
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a millers thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my fathers had become, during his earlier years of a millers life.”
—Jane Addams (18601935)
“And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 6:4.
“Rather than have it the principal thing in my sons mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
—Thomas Arnold (17951842)
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