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Quote by Margaret Laurence
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, i

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence

Other quotes by Margaret Laurence

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. – Margaret Laurence

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. – Doug Larson

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

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You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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