Famous quotes containing the word vicious:
“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (16221673)
“The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all beasts; and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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